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 ...

“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 ...

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.

Brought out of retirement by manager Joe Gould, James J. Braddock was intended to be the fall guy, a tune-up opponent for John “Corn” Griffin before Griffin met the world heavyweight champion, Max ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ron Howard directorial Cinderella Man chronicles the journey of James J. Braddock, a once-promising boxer who is held back due to the struggles of the Great Depression. His wife and manager ...