Was Max Baer's power as scary as Cinderella Man made it out to be?

**Silencers** · 01-12-2009, 03:26 AM

Baer was definitely known as a big puncher but as with all movies, the movie probably exagerrated the fear of his power and Baer was supposedly a much nicer guy than the movie made him out to be.

**Fox McCloud** · 01-12-2009, 03:27 AM

Originally posted by Silencers

Baer was definitely known as a big puncher but as with all movies, the movie probably exagerrated the fear of his power and Baer was supposedly a much nicer guy than the movie made him out to be.

That was sickening how they showed him looking proud that he killed a dude.

He put one of his victim's kids through college I read somewhere. He obviously was not as big of an F as they made him out to be.

**Silencers** · 01-12-2009, 03:50 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

That was sickening how they showed him looking proud that he killed a dude.

He put one of his victim's kids through college I read somewhere. He obviously was not as big of an F as they made him out to be.

Yeah, he was supposedly very affected by the death of his opponent, he was nowhere near as bad a man as the movie made him out to be.

**Rhaegar** · 01-12-2009, 06:05 AM

The book Cindarella Man is very interesting, Baer was a nice guy who just happened to be involved in two bad evenings. Obviously the film needed to paint him as a bad guy to make it more successful I guess. He wasn't a particularly sickening one punch guy, more the thudding type that will do more damage the longer it goes.

**KostyaTszyu44** · 01-12-2009, 06:17 AM

that movie made baer out to be a real ****, he was actually pretty nice from what i heard

**squealpiggy** · 01-12-2009, 07:00 AM

Yes he came close to quitting boxing after Frankie Campbell died.

**keepthemhandsup** · 01-12-2009, 07:04 AM

i was watch a max baer fight

max baer was a big dude.....

**squealpiggy** · 01-12-2009, 07:05 AM

He wasn't that big though. Not by today's standards any way.

Frankie Campbell died after a sustained beating in the corner that would have severely damaged anybody, and the referee and Frankie's corner did nothing about it. After the fight Max went to see Frankie in hospital and made amends with his wife.

**Miburo** · 01-12-2009, 07:35 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

I just watched it last night, and...

it made me laugh that everything was all good and fine after Jimmy Braddock won the belt, even though his wife nearly died in terror of Baer, because in his very next fight, Braddock fought the man who holds the #1 spot on The Ring's hardest punchers ever list.

Anyway, was Baer's power that sick or what?

Just to correct, that list is not "hardest punchers ever" but "best punchers", meaning the criteria used were a combination of power, accuracy, etc. I don't think anyone would rank Louis over Jackson, Shavers, Foreman and co. in terms of pure power, but he was judged to be more skillful with what he had.

Was Max Baer's power as scary as Cinderella Man made it out to be?