Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog who defied all the odds chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring. Suddenly, the ordinary working man who couldn’t get a job became the mythic athlete who could not lose. Except that Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. In bout after bout, the talk was that poor Jim Braddock was criminally outmatched and perilously in over his head.
In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that really mattered to him - his family - was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. Like so many others, Braddock had hit rock bottom. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace. the “Cinderella Man” - who was to become one of the most surprising and inspirational sports legends in history.
In the middle of the Great Depression, when an America in the grips of a devastating economic downturn was nearly brought to its knees, there came along a most unlikely hero who had crowds cheering on their feet - as he proved just how hard a man would fight to win a second chance for his family and himself.
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