On June 13 it will have been 70 years since James J. Braddock surprised everyone when he defeated Max Baer and won the richest prize in sports, boxing’s heavyweight championship. Braddock ...

Jeremy Schaap, the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, takes a more nuanced view. Schaap establishes that Baer’s father was at least ...

James J. Braddock, the Cinderella Man who scored one of the greatest heavyweight upsets in boxing history when he beat Max Baer in 1935 for the title, is now in the midst of his second great comeback.

Part of Baer's appeal was his stature and demeanor, Jeremy Schaap writes in "Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History," which notes that Baer had the ...

chronicles the story of heavyweight James J. Braddock's (Russell Crowe) rise during the Depression to capture the world heavyweight championship. Braddock's upset win over champion Max Baer (Craig ...

true-life comeback of Depression-era heavyweight boxer James J. Braddock from impoverished dockworker to world champion. But to get there, Braddock has to defeat the current champ, Max Baer.

Although he considered himself to have “more brawn than brains”, James J. Braddock had an unerring ... and finally Max Baer, the Heavyweight Champion and the last to make the mistake of ...

The Ron Howard movie, opening this Friday, charts the rise and fall and rise again of James Braddock ... bout with defending champ Max Baer – a fight in which Braddock faced 10-1 odds, the ...

Ron Howard’s new movie, “Cinderella Man,” about the boxing comeback of James J. Braddock, needed a villain ... as a very bad guy. But Max Baer, the 1934 heavyweight champion of the world ...

It says something bad about everyone associated with this film–the audience included–that boxer Max Baer ... is that Baer trained very little for his storied fight with James Braddock ...

James J. Braddock, the Cinderella Man who scored one of the greatest heavyweight upsets in boxing history when he beat Max Baer in 1935 for the title, is now in the midst of his second great comeback.