the cinderella man!

One of the things that fired my imagination and got me into boxing were the biographies of the old fighters. I've got jack **** imagination either but for some reason these books fascinated me.

Carnera, Louis, Dempsey and loads of others... Cooper, Ali, Liston, Tyson, Lewis, Minter...

Used to nick them from the local library, christ knows why, they would have let me borrow them I'm sure!

Never been one for the films though, can't deal with the unrealistic fight scenes and Hollywood manipulation.

 

The fight scenes in Cinderella man are pretty damm good and definetly have the look of some of the old Braddock footage.

Yep the old timers are the reason I got into the sport.

 

You have to say that physically Crowe did an excellent job of playing Braddock. He had his stance down perfectly for instance.

 

Seems a total bellend in real life

But an amazing actor

 

Crow is one of my favorite current actors. He was great in that fim and got Braddock bang on.

 

Good good film, The same as others, the Baer portrayal wasn't right but I guess that's Hollywood and it's need for a villain.

You can hardly have the baddie as some lovable old teddy bear.

 

You never saw King Kong then I guess.

 

Not being a willowy blond in an evening gown, I dare say he wouldn't have had much time for me!

Forgot to mention, read a great book about Braddock which included a lot about Baer, called ...suprisingly......Cinderella Man by Michael C. DeLisa

 

I've not read Baers book but I've read quite a few from around that time and I've never heard Baer criticized other than for being a playboy who didn't take his training too seriously. He did **** about with Carneras head before and during their fight but nothing too nasty.