European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 a a a the St is and stripes wednesday August 29,1990he was it All began with Braddock. He was the original Rocky. If you saw Rocky i that was the James j. Braddock Story. Sylvester Stallone a fight Buffi was no doubt very familiar with the Braddock Saga when he scripted the life and times of Rocky Balboa. They said James Buster Douglas knockout of heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson was the greatest upset in boxing history. Maybe it was. But the Braddock upset is Nick and Nick. It came in the depression �?T30s. Nobody had any Money least of All a Down and out fighter Over in Jersey named James Braddock. He and his wife and kids were not Only broke they were on Relief. Braddock would get up in the morning and climb Down the Jersey Palisades to the Hudson River waterfront where he would get in the daily shape up hoping for longshore work. When he got it he got 50 cents an hour lifting Railroad ties out of ships and onto Flatcar. His diet was Day old doughnuts sold at discount because they were stale. A he had been a Light heavy Highl contender. He did no to lose a fight his first 3 i years but when he got his title shot he just Wasny tas Good As the champs the Tommy Loughrane and the magic Rose blooms. He tried to work the docks by Day and fight at night. He fought the Guys no one else wanted to fight a the great Black fighters a Al gainer dynamite Jackson and John Henry Lewis soon to be Light heavyweight Champion. He fought them in i hair hometowns. He lost. He was going nowhere. He fought eight bouts in 1932 and he lost four of them. He got slopped by an in and outer named Lou Scoz a. I he was used mainly to make character for new Oung phenoms. They invented the name a a trial orc Quot Lor Guys like Braddock. That ultimately was his Good Fortune. His no Wand then manager Joe Gould used to haunt the Madison Square Garden offices looking for a pay night for his fighter and when they were looking for the classic Quot opponent Quot to look Good on the record of a new Hotshot fighter out of Georgia named Corn Griffin Braddock seemed Ideal. Corn Griffin knocked him Down with the first punch of the fight. Braddock got up. He always got up. He knocked Griffin out in the third round. He got $250, which he paid Back to the government for his Relief. "1 did that on hash a he told his manager Quot get me some steaks and ill clean out the  boxing had its own Apollo Creed As Champ Al that time Max Baer a Guy with the build of a greek god and the punch of a falling paving Block possessed of Jim Murray such a devastating right hand that he had killed two James j. Braddock in 1935 men in the ring with it. When Braddock got matched with Baer in 1935 a after whipping John Henry Lewis and Art Lasky top contenders a the new York writers feared the worst. Quot Baer May injure him fatally a warned Paul Ballico. Quot it will be surprising to me if we All done tend up in police court Quot wrote Davis j. Walsh Braddock not Only lived he gave Baer a thrashing. Braddock could do two things Rocky Balboa could a he could take it and he was tearless. The James Buster Douglas Story has similarities to the James Braddock Story. The Dpuglas record like the Braddock is dotted with losses. Douglas was asked if he could explain his so so record leading up to the Tyson fight. Like Braddock he had lost to nobodies. David Bey knocked him out in two rounds in 1981, somebody named Mike White had knocked him out in five rounds in 1983. Someone named Jesse Ferguson beat him in 1985, and Tony Tucker knocked him out in 1987. Like Braddock he had the dreaded Quot Nch on his record. This stands for no Conlest and a set of circumstances where the referee maps the bout on the suspicion the fighters Arentt  were Quot i was Busy doing other things in those Days a Buster explained. A what other things a Buster was asked. A making a living a explained Buster. A i was working in a Carpel store for one thing. L was laying carpet. 1 was losing fights outside the  he was trying to win fights on hash too. What the two kid cinderellas did with their titles has its similarities. In Braddock Scase he was pointing toward a big Money shot with Joe Louis when the Young Brown bomber made the mistake of scheduling a tuneup fight against Max Schmeling who knocked him out. That created terrible problems for the whole Republic let alone the Champ Braddock did no to want to fight Schmeling because he could Only get about one tenth the purse he could command with Louis. The country did no to want to fight Schmeling because no one wanted the heavyweight title to go Back to Hil ice. A a a a. Braddock fought Louis in Chicago. He got knocked out in eight rounds. He floored Louis in the first round but a Louis right Tore his Mouth almost in half in round 8. Buster Douglas had his own dilemma. It is Clear his big Money shot would be a return bout against Tusori. But for Douglas to get the shot at Tyson in Tokyo last february Evandor Holyfield had to waive his rights As no. 1 challenger. Max Schmeling would not do that in 1937, even coming to new York for a phantom weigh in for a phantom bout. But Holyfield stepped aside in return for a guaranteed shot against the Winner. Could Douglas have dishonoured that pledge probably. Its done All the time in the fight game whose Symbol should not be the clenched fist but the outstretched Palm. So Buster is going to meet his obligations and fight Holyfield at the Mirage hotel in Las vegas on oct. 25. Here he departs from the Braddock script James j. Not Only stiffed Schmeling he made an arrangement no commission could approve today. He agreed to run out on the Schmeling match and meet Louis for the title. In return he got 10 percent of the purses of Louis subsequent fights a not from Louis end from the promoters. James j. Did no to want to go Back to hash. Or on Relief. Or lifting Railroad tics. Like the Rocky movies he wanted a Happy ending too. A the los Angela time scoreboard transactions monday baseball California angll3�? placed Donna Hill in ital Dir on my tidy disabled list it i Slind Jack in wait third baseman from Edmonton of 1110 of a a a civic const i a quo  ndianf1 in cylk a Choli his Nagy. Pitcher from Canton Akron of lint l axiom league. Minn so a twins a placed Randy Bush  i. On to if Jay disabled led. Tilro Clivi to Ann 213 Rui ill tip Paul Gurri Iii. In in baseman from Portland of the Pacific coast Luau us football Atlanta i at cons signed Chris Hilim offensive guard waived Juson . 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