- Peekay keeps winning fights, and Morrie keeps making them rich with his bookie business. Morrie is a stats nerd, keeping careful records on every boxer in the league so that they would know what odds to set on the bets before the fights.
- Peekay makes it through his first year of school undefeated, and by the time they make it to their third year the younger boxers are starting to win, too. Morrie thinks it's time to get out of the gambling business, but Peekay is worried about what he'll do for pocket money, since his mother is still in no financial condition to be sending him any and he relies on the proceeds from the bets to buy his cream buns and other very important necessities.
- Peekay gets the idea to start a bank at school, and Morrie is hesitant because he's afraid that'd be too stereotypically Jewish of a thing to do. But Peekay convinces him that it will be seen as an ordinary bank, and he's right.
- The team keeps getting better, and they finally break their last-place streak. Peekay's African fan club is in the hundreds, and after his wins they would chant "Onoshobishobi Ingelosi!" Morrie arranges for Peekay's fights to be early, so that his fans can come before their nine o'clock curfew and help to build up the atmosphere in Peekay's favor.
- Peekay is obsessed with winning because he is obsessed with becoming the welterweight champion of the world, and is undefeated in his years at school.
- He hits puberty and becomes obsessed with sex, and all the while his original crush, Miss Bornstein, sends him and Morrie letters with debates, assignments, and lessons that they fight over and argue over with her in their letters back. Sometimes her unorthodox interpretations of history get them into trouble when they differ with teachers, and the phrase "According to Miss Bornstein…" becomes a school code for disagreeing.
- Morrie and Peekay come up with another moneymaking scheme, this time selling course notes to the boys in the first two grades. The title of their course is "The Miss Bornstein School of Correspondence Notes," and every kid in school buys one. Cha-ching.
- The school director, St. John Burnham, nicknamed Singe 'n' Burn, looks for six boys every year to join his special course, intended to create supermen who are well-rounded and go on to change the world. Can you guess whether or not Peekay is a contender? The six are called "Sinjun's People," and Morrie, of course, takes bets on who will make the cut.
- In his interview as a finalist to become one of Sinjun's People, Peekay explains that he is obsessed with boxing and will become the welterweight champion of the world. Sinjun doesn't look convinced, so Peekay is a little worried about his chances.
- In an assembly, Sinjun announces his people, saving Peekay for last. Morrie's name is the first one called, and since hardly anyone bet on him being first choice, he and Peekay make a killing off their bookmaking.
- In a talk with Morrie, Peekay finds out that Morrie had told Sinjun all about Geel Piet and the boxing, and had said that if Peekay weren't chosen he would give up his own spot for his friend. Peekay is deeply moved by his friend's intervention.