There was no reason to expect much from Cinderella Man, Ron Howard’s biography of boxer James Braddock, who in the summer of 1935 became the most unlikely heavyweight champion in the history of boxing ...

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.

Braddock was born June 7, 1905, into a poor Irish family in New York City. He entered his first official fight in 1923 under the alias Jimmy Ryan and at 21 turned pro under the guidance of Joe Gould.

“In-fighters,” Manny Farber observed in his famous 1949 essay on fight films, are never depicted in boxing movies. “Counterpunches, cuties are never characterized – only one type is presented, a ...

A misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden’s Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J ...

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