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1922-03-20 Laurel Garden, Newark, New Jersey, US

• Luis Angel Firpo W KO Tom Maxted
• Al Delmont W NWS Butch Wallace
• Jack Carter W TKO Young Palmer
• Battling Red D NWS Rabbit Long

Source for the results: Newark Evening News, Newark, NJ (3-21-1922, p. 18). Source for a preview of the card: Newark Evening News, Newark, NJ (3-20-1922, p. 16).

According to the Newark Evening News, the card was attended by "...Ernesto Perez, Consul General of Argentina, who entertained a party of South Americans at the fight. Movies of the scrap [between Firpo and Maxted] were taken , to be exhibited in South America, according to the plan."

John Lardner wrote an article about the Firpo-Maxted film in the 1956 edition of the True Boxing Yearbook, saying: "For the whole of the year that followed, the [moving] pictures of the Firpo-Maxted fight went from South American theater to South American theater, from Colombia to Cape Horn, delighting eager crowds with the triumph of the champion of South America.... When Maxted...heard box office reports from the south, he began suing Firpo with both fists. For fourteen months he sued for his share of a bonanza that he estimated in court at $50,000. There were two things wrong with the Sailor's claim: (1) He never collected and (2) He underestimated the loot. Firpo made a hundred grand not fifty...[from the showing of the film]".