"The plan is for both of them to come through their fights on the night and then the pair will meet in a massive rematch in June.
Yet somehow this harsh, funny, ultimately affecting play by Stephen Adly Guirgis lets us see right through their fights and lies and egregiously bad behavior to their eternal but star-crossed love.
"I saw a look in his eyes, a feeling, 'My God, what if I'd done this differently.' " In those eyes, you see him look at Ali, his tormentor, who, through their fights cruelly called him an Uncle Tom, called him ugly, called him a gorilla.
Like others who watched Bethenny and Jason over the past several years, I "attended" their wedding, I smiled at the birth of their daughter, and I cringed through their fights and exhaled at their making up.
The producers say the dispute is about creative control, managerial flexibility and putting an end to featherbedding, but if one cuts through those arguments, their fight is about increasing profits.
"He taught artists the skill of using art as a tool to reach hearts and minds through illustrations detailing their fight for the 1st Amendment right to free speech and expression".
A multitude of Iranians took their fight through a holy breach on Saturday from which there appears to be scant turning back.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea rejected Ireland's request for an injunction to stop the expansion of the Sellafield nuclear processing site, on the west coast of Britain 60 miles from Dublin, but officials said they would continue their fight through other legal means.
There is another temptation: to see their fight primarily through what it says about us.
