James J. Braddock nose he broke during the bout on March 22, 1935, Braddock was given a title fight against the World Heavyweight Champion, Max Baer. Baer hardly trained for the bout, but Braddock did. "I'm training for a fight. Not a boxing contest or a clownin' contest or a dance", he said. "Whether it goes 1 round or 3 rounds or 10 rounds, it will be a fight and a fight all the way... When you've been through what I've had to face in the last two years, a Max Baer or a Bengal tiger looks like a house pet. He might
The Ballad of Jed Clampett a peak of number one for three weeks and reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. During the original run of "The Beverly Hillbillies", special lyrics were written and inserted into the opening theme, advertising regular sponsors such as Kellogg's cereals and Winston cigarettes. "Weird Al" Yankovic merged the first two stanzas of the "Ballad" with the instrumentals to the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" in his 1989 single "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", which was written for his film "UHF." In the late 1970s, "Saturday Night Live" did a spoof on the "Beverly Hillbillies" in a sketch