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

[Bad Boy Dazza]

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

yes that really pissed me off about the movie - showed disrespect to Baer and his family

[Southpaw16BF]

Max Bear could really punch, it's one of the main reasons why he got so far, but like most movies they exagerrated it. And they made out Bear to be a nasty man but it was all lies/ Max Bear was a friendly man who was always joking around and didn't really always take the sport seriously. Bear's family were very upset the way they portrayed him.

[TheGreatA]

Baer had a big punch, people at the time rated his right hand as the most powerful ever. He wasn't a precise puncher though, like Joe Louis was, which is why he was picked apart by Louis.

He most certainly wasn't like the movie portrayed although he liked to play the bad guy's role. He was more of a loudmouth like Ali than scary and intimidating like Tyson and Liston were though.

[Southpaw16BF]

[warp1432]

The book was a lot better then the movie was.

[richardhead]

That's a fact Max Bear could really punch. That's the reason why he got so far in Boxing. The film exaggerated it. They made out Bear to be a Bas--rd. Max Bear was a nice guy loved by many.
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[Scott9945]

Baer had a very hard right. What was false about the movie was how they made the 15th round seem like a thriller, when it was really just like every other round in that fight with a poorly prepared Baer being ineffective against the clever Braddock.

[Fox McCloud]

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.

THANK YOU... I was always so confused by that list. I had no idea how Julian Jackson was 39th... if 38 people in boxing hit harder than him in history, that is just scary.

Baer had a very hard right. What was false about the movie was how they made the 15th round seem like a thriller, when it was really just like every other round in that fight with a poorly prepared Baer being ineffective against the clever Braddock.

Bert Sugar described this bout as one of the worst to watch ever... Braddock didn't do very well, and Baer just showboated all night.