Who knew?

… Boxing is Always in Crisis: On Joyce Carol Oates, Floyd Mayweather, and Conor McGregor | Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I did not know that Joyce Carol Oates was a boxing aficionado, but the quotes in this piece prove that she really is. I'm so old I can remember listening with my family to the radio broadcast of the 1948 Louis-Walcott match.