Boxing's true Cinderella story: James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses and a broken right hand happened to ...

The night last June that Max Baer clowned away his title to colorless James J. Braddock, thus bringing heavyweight boxing to its all-time low, Joe Louis had been a professional less than one year.

With the Oscar-winning trio of director Ron Howard and stars Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger, the movie "Cinderella Man" opens nationwide tomorrow and could be the summer's blockbuster hit. Schaap ...

In 2005 boxing legend James J. “Jimmy” Braddock once again punched his way into American hearts. Dramatized in Ron Howard’s “Cinderella Man,” the film, starring Russell Crowe, tells of Braddock’s rise ...

In one corner of the ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other ...

An exquisite ode to a working-class hero, "Cinderella Man" takes the almost impossibly perfect elements of the saga of underdog boxer James J. Braddock and fills it with emotional gravitas, wrenching ...

Jim Braddock may have lost more fights (23) than any other heavyweight champ but he was still too good to have to fight Rocky Balboa. "Cinderella Man" is a very good movie -- one of the summer's ...