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And even Bennison had to concede, with all the reluctance of an expert whose prediction hadn't gone exactly as foreseen, “There was, according to my reckoning, only a fractional difference in favor of Louis at the end, and it says much for the sportsmanship of Farr that, when he was declared the loser, he took the verdict without the least quibble.”

Joe's purse for defeating Tommy was $102,578, a little over a grand less than he'd earned for beating Braddock.

After Farr, they set ’em up for Joe, and Joe knocked ’em down. It looked like great business. For Joe. For Jim and his Joe. And for Uncle Mike.

However, Joe Gould sniffed dismissively at the champion's next purse: $40,522 for a cakewalk against Natie Mann in the Garden in February 1938. He was similarly unimpressed in April, when Joe spent a mere five rounds getting Harry Thomas out of the way for a paltry $16,659.

Schmeling, meanwhile, waited and fumed—and turned the Atlantic into his personal highway as he crisscrossed to force a showdown with the man he'd beaten in 1936, the acknowledged world champion. There would be no complaints about the purse this time.