However there had been doubts the fight would happen after Farr came under pressure from the British Boxing Board of Control to instead fight German boxer, MaxSchmeling.
She is a journalist, not a professional historian, and her lack of thoroughness sometimes shows she thinks, for instance, that Alf Landon, not Herbert Hoover, ran against Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, and more than halves the time that Joe Louis took to defeat MaxSchmeling in 1938.