Jim J. Braddock

Born – June, 7th
1905
Died – November
29th 1974
( Age of 69 )

Early Life
Braddock was born in Hell's Kitchen in New York City on West 48th Street, within a couple of blocks of the
Madison Square Garden venue, where he later became famous. He was the son of Irish-American parents Elizabeth (née O'Tool) and Joseph Braddock.
He stated his life's early ambition was to play football for Knute Rockne at the University of Notre
Dame, “but he had "more brawn than brains."

Where he was buried
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On his death in 1974 at the age of 69, James J.
Braddock was interred in the Mount Carmel
Cemetery in Tenafly, New
Jersey. He was inducted into the International
Boxing Hall of Fame in
2001. James J. Braddock
North Hudson County
Park in North Bergen,
New Jersey is named in his honor.

Career
 Braddock

pursued boxing, turning pro at the age of 21, fighting as a light heavyweight. After three years, Braddock's record was 44-2-2 with 21 knockouts.
[citation needed]

 In

1928, he pulled off a major upset by knocking out highly regarded Tuffy Griffiths.
The following year he earned a chance to fight for the title, but he narrowly lost to
Tommy Loughran in a 15-round decision. Braddock was greatly depressed by the loss and badly fractured his right hand in several places in the process. His career suffered as a result, as did his disposition.[citation needed]

 His

record for the next 33 fights fell to 11-20-2. With his family in poverty during the
Great Depression, Braddock had to give up boxing for a little while and worked as a longshoreman. Due to frequent injuries to his right hand, Braddock compensated by using his left hand during his longshoreman work, and it gradually became stronger than his right. He always remembered the humiliation of having to accept government relief money, but was inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement, a Christian social justice organization founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933 to help the homeless and hungry. After his boxing comeback, Braddock returned the welfare money he had received and made frequent donations to various Catholic Worker
Houses, including feeding homeless guests with his family.

Jim Braddock VS MAX
BAER
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In 1934, Braddock was given a fight with the highly touted John "Corn" Griffin. Although
Braddock was intended simply as a stepping stone in Griffin's career, he knocked out the
"Ozark Cyclone" in the third round. Braddock then fought John Henry Lewis, a future light heavyweight champion. He won in one of the most important fights of his