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first job
James.J.Bradock got a job when he was 14 as a telagram deliveryman -
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first job
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First Fight
Joe, james brother was scheduled to figh but his brother was eager to fight. his brother aloud him to fight under a different name. -
terrer of the garden
from 1924-1925 Braddock was the terrer of the garden State's Amateur ranks. -
James meets Joe Gould His Future Manager
Gould was working on getting a contract for his Fighter Harry Galfund and all he had to do is allow them to see him in action. so when they were at the gym he saw a young fighter in the corner shadow boxing. gould asked him to spare against his fighter. the young fighter was james and he won the fight. -
fight for the state light heaveyweight championship
braddock had won the new Jersey amateur light Heavyweight championship. the fight only lasted 107 sec. -
dipping to the bottom of the curve
i the summer of 1928 Braddock was dipping to the bottome of the curve, gould was woundering if he rushed him into it too fast. Braddock was Losing to or drawing in fighters were he should have domminated in. -
James J. Braddock vs Lomski
Braddock was sceduled for ten rounds. Braddocked weighed 172pounds, Lomski 172.5. more then 18,000 people almost all of them men- packed the garden to see for themselves just how tough jersey Jim was. still most of them belived that he would lose to Lomski, who was two to one favorite. -
the stock market crashed
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Braddock maried Mea Fox
shortly after the priest blessed the union , Jim and Mae were on a train for miami beach. -
Braddock fought for the fist time as a maried man
Braddock fought for the first time as a married man on April 7 againest Billy Jones, a fighter of little distinction. braddock weighed 183 pounds and fought hard for ten rounds, but decion went to Jones. The defeat was cruching. It eliminated Braddock as a sontender in the light heavyweight division. -
back in the fighting game
When Joe Gould finally found Braddock on the Docks. Braddock had not fought in almost nine months . it was the longest layoff ever. yet he was in remarkable shape. -
fight agenst Corn Griffen
Braddock nocked out Griffen in the Third round. Braddock could barly describe it afterwards. The feeling was so unfamiliar -not knocking someone out, he had done that dozens of times. but it had been so long. " This is what i should have been doing years ago, Braddock thought. "this hand is a bludgeon".
