Do tell?
Here's the rumor. The young fighter - "J" was reading Neiche (sorry - I know it's spelled wrong) when the writer of the short story (Million Dollar Baby), walks into the gym. He's totally taken with the intelligent, sensitive fighter. She fights, works on her Master's degree when not at the gym, and write plays at night. The person who told me said there was something about it in
"Sports Illustrated" or some such magazine... Who knows...