“When he took a dive during the Billy Fox fight, which he didn’t want to do, it literally broke him & was never the same afterwards,” she added. “I’m proud that my Father was a great athlete, he lost his title to one of the best Middleweight Boxers in history, Sugar Ray Robinson,” his daughter wrote on Facebook. LaMotta’s turmoil-filled life - marked by a fixed match he deliberately lost under Mafia pressure in 1947 - was depicted in the 1980 movie “Raging Bull, in which he was portrayed in an Academy Award-winning performance by Robert De Niro. Raging Bull Raging Bull at 40: Scorsese's brutal boxing saga still bruises Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning performance as Jake LaMotta remains chilling yet it’s a defiant refusal to. Jake LaMotta - The Raging Bull haNZAgod 99.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.7K 206K views 7 years ago Highlights of the great Middleweight champ. After two successful defences, he lost the belt in 1952 in his sixth bout against Sugar Ray Robinson. On June 16, 1949, he scored a knockout win over French boxer Marcel Cerdan to capture the middleweight title. In a career spanning 1941 to 1954, LaMotta racked up a record of 83 victories, 30 of them knockouts, against 19 defeats, according to BoxRec, which keeps boxing statistics. Your mothers an animal, ya son of a bitch,' LaMotta yells out his apartment window at a neighbor while hes arguing with his first wife. Joey Fights Salvy And His Friends Due to Jake LaMotta’s jealous rage and suspicious nature, he tells his brother Joey to keep an eye on his wife when he’s out of town. Here are Raging Bull ’s 10 Most Iconic Moments, Ranked. Sports Illustrated said he died from complications from pneumonia. The tragic tale of Jake LaMotta explores the worst in humanity, in sumptuous black-and-white. LaMotta, known for a legendary six-fight rivalry with Sugar Ray Robinson, passed away on Tuesday, his daughter Christi LaMotta said on Facebook. Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight boxing champion who was portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film “Raging Bull,” has died at the age of 95, his family announced.
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