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 ...

Max Baer is arguably best known today for siring Max Baer Jr., the actor who played Jethro Bodine on the classic TV series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). However, old-timers, followers of the sweet ...

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 ...

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 ...