Quick! Without googling, who is the heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
Doesn't matter, does it? Nobody cares.
This isn't a year in the 1930s when a marauding and incredibly popular Jack Dempsey made more money than Babe Ruth.
This isn't 1938 when, two years after Jesse Owens made a cultural statement in the Olympics, Joe Louis set the country on fire by blitzing German hero Max Schmeling in 2 minutes, 4 seconds in front of 70,000 in Yankee Stadium.
With war on the horizon, the significance of that championship fight goes unmatched, even by Muhammad Ali.