To be sure, Cinderella Man’s fleeting portrait of Baer as a skirt-chasing playboy, notorious for clowning in the ring, is consistent with published accounts. (Among other things, he didn’t live to see his son achieve television celebrity as Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.) Louis defeated Baer, paving the way for Louis to fight Braddock for the title (although between the Baer fight and this title fight, Louis lost to Max Schmeling). In the film, the death of Campbell is used to build up Baer as a remorseless killer. Schulberg slammed The Harder They Fall as naively sensationalistic, singling out the film’s use of Baer: “Maxie Baer, who queens through this incredible part, may have been a tamed tiger but he wasn’t a monster.”, Even though Baer underachieved as a boxing talent, he still has the distinction of being a feared fighter who wore a conspicuous Star of David on his trunks in the dangerous years of the 1930s. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. If he hit you right, he’d knock you out in the third row. Baer’s prominent display of the Star of David came at a time of continuous bad tidings from Germany. Lee Wylie quit teasing us and drop that Willie Pep already!! NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Nov. 29 (AP)—James J. Braddock, who won the world heavyweight championship in 1935 by outpointing Max Baer in one of boxing's biggest upsets, died today at his home here. Max Baer (left) vs. James J. Braddock heavyweight championship fight, Long Island City, New York, June 13, 1935. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. James Braddock vs. Joe Louis was a heavyweight professional boxing fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world between champion James J. Braddock and challenger Joe Louis. In a 1934 Vanity Fair profile, Baer is described by a bemused Westbrook Pegler in strikingly Gatsby-like terms, a striver taking “dago-singing” lessons and “long-wording people into a daze” from a pocket dictionary. Baer instead fought Joe Louis. Louis was a faster puncher and he hit you more punches, but Baer was a guy that could hurt you.”, “He hit me a couple of times and I said, ‘Is that as hard as you can punch?’ So that took a little bit out of him. Lost many fights overall, due to either the inability to train correctly , due to the need to work during the depression. Pre-fight. What’s funny, and ironic, is that by downplaying Baer’s Star of David, Howard may be making an accurate historical comment: Baer was the only self-proclaimed Jew to ever claim the heavyweight crown. He only read the sports pages, but Hoffman kept drilling it into his head, ‘You’re fighting for the Jews.’ “. The tragedy so rattled Baer that he lost four of his next six fights. Attentive viewers of the climactic fight of Cinderella Man, Ron Howard’s Depression-era crowd-pleaser, will notice a Star of David on the red trunks of Max Baer, the lethal opponent of Jim “Cinderella Man” Braddock. Schaap writes that, on the night of the Braddock fight, “Of the 30,000 people in the Bowl, virtually everyone except the Jews was cheering for Braddock.”, Stepping back, Baer’s “Jewishness” was only one aspect of his elaborate self-invention. Braddock, a true gentleman and great boxer. I seen Tommy Loughran lick him in the Garden and I boxed Tommy and I knew what kind of boxer he was and I said to myself, if I ever fought Baer I’d do the same thing Loughran done with him, the left hand and move…”, “Oh, yeah, he landed. You’re way behind. Montreal is The Fight City. He died of a massive heart attack at the age of 50 in 1959. It played for a while in Germany, until Goebbels banned the film because Baer was in the cast. A day after the Schmeling fight, a Times dispatch from Berlin reported that the German papers were reticent about their countryman’s defeat. In the post-fight coverage, however, Baer’s new “racial” identity raised eyebrows. June 13, 1935: Braddock vs Baer: James J. Braddock scores one of boxing's biggest upsets by taking a 15 round decision over heavyweight champion Max Baer. One night, one fight, one chance is all you need in this brutal sport. The fight took place on June 22, 1937 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. Cinderella Man! His tenuous claim, however, seems to have been good enough for Jewish fight fans. – George Foreman. The movie was ggo but not kind to Max Baer. Also had brittle hands, but a real good boxer that could hit too when needed. “He thought it was horseshit,” says his son. But his most enduring film is the 1956 anti-boxing exposé The Harder They Fall, adapted from a Budd Schulberg novel. James Walter ("Jim J.") “All papers ignore the fact that Schmeling was beaten by a man who in Germany would be classified as a Jew,” the unnamed Times correspondent wrote. “That one’s for Hitler,” Baer snarled between blows to the stumbling Schmeling. James Braddock vs. Joe Louis was a heavyweight professional boxing fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world between champion James J. Braddock and challenger Joe Louis. It was his finest hour in the ring. In 1933 he starred with Myrna Loy and his upcoming opponent Primo Carnera in The Prizefighter and the Lady, in which he played an all-American underdog who challenges Carnera for the championship. November 1974 in North Bergen, New Jersey) war ein US-amerikanischer Profiboxer und „unumstrittener“ Schwergewichts-Boxweltmeister von 1935 bis 1937. before the fight,” he says, apparently listing the offenses in ascending order of gravity. But was he really even Jewish? But he was just another opponent and I was in there to fight him.”, “I knew from the start that I could lick him. In my opinion, the guy was a harder puncher than Louis. “Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.” His fights were twice (1933 win over Max Schmeling, 1935 loss to James J. Braddock) rated Fight of the Year by The Ring Magazine.Baer was also a boxing referee, and had an occasional role on film or … As reported in the New York Times: Over the years, the significance of Baer’s gesture has been dismissed as a publicity stunt in a sport that thrives on racial and ethnic conflict. One can only imagine the propaganda uses Joseph Goebbels would have found had Schmeling defeated Baer. It’s no surprise that Howard would obscure this detail, as it would complicate his film’s Rocky-meets-Seabiscuit narrative. '” — James J. Braddock, in Peter Heller’s In This Corner. Braddock won the title by defeating Max Baer. Der irischstämmige Braddock, der sich ab 1919 in verschiedenen Berufen versucht hatte, wurde 1923 Amateurboxer und 1926 … The film was a success and Baer received good reviews for a role that included singing and dancing. That studiously determined upstart turned out to be gritty Jimmy Braddock from the Jersey docks, known by the more fitting “Plain Jim” before Damon Runyon tagged him “Cinderella Man.” Braddock’s tale is indeed inspiring: He had a family to feed while Baer’s expenses ran mostly to his wardrobe and his mistresses. They never gave me a chance. Max Baer (left) vs. James J. Braddock heavyweight championship fight, Long Island City, New York, June 13, 1935.
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