“I was thinking that if I don’t win this fight on Saturday, I might have to go back and work at Cheesecake Factory again.
” —Fighting on the undercard of what she calls"one of the most important nights in women's boxing history," Franchon Crews-Dezurn won the undisputed super-middleweight championship. She spoke to us about the slowly rising pay for women in boxing and her own motivation to keep winning—so she doesn't have to return to her job as a server.