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When Joe knocked the stuffing out of the Ambling Alp, Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium (attracting 64,000 customers, twice the number who filled the Garden for Baer–Braddock), it seemed the clamor for Louis–Braddock would not be denied for long. It was put on hold—but for reasons that would not become immediately obvious. This was going to be a slow burn, kindled by the Hearst newspapers, which now had links to the Garden through the enterprising Runyon and his pals.

The lineage of boxing's most prized championship up to that point was, generally, a distinguished one: Sullivan lasted exactly seven months; then came James J. Corbett, 1892 to 1897; Bob Fitzsimmons, 1897 to 1899; James J. Jeffries, 1899 to 1905; Marvin Hart, 1905 to 1906; Tommy Burns, 1906 to 1908; Jack Johnson, 1908 to 1915; Jess Willard, 1915 to 1919; Jack Dempsey, 1919 to 1926; Gene Tunney, 1926 to 1928 (the title was in abeyance for two years after Tunney retired in 1928); Max Schmeling, 1930 to 1932; Jack Sharkey, 1932 to 1933; Primo Carnera, 1933 to 1934; and Baer, who held it a day short of a year.