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Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta (July 10, 1922 – September 19, 2017) was an Italian-American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951. Nicknamed " The Bronx Bull " or " Raging Bull " for his technique of constant stalking, brawling and inside fighting, he developed a reputation for being a "bully"; he was what is ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Jake LaMotta was a former middleweight boxing champion whose life and career is the subject of Martin Scorsese's acclaimed film 'Raging Bull.'
Sep 20, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, boxing’s “Raging Bull,” who brawled his way to the middleweight boxing championship in a life of unbridled fury — within the ring and outside it — that became the subject of...
Jul 6, 2024 · Jake LaMotta (born July 10, 1922, New York, New York, U.S.—died September 19, 2017, Aventura, Florida) was an American boxer and world middleweight boxing champion (1949–51) whose stamina and fierceness in the ring earned him the nickname “the Bronx Bull.”
Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta's rivalry is regarded as one of the greatest in boxing history. Bleacher Report and The Fight City both ranked their fights as the second greatest boxing rivalry of all time (behind Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali ).
Sep 21, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, the middleweight champion boxer famed for his ferocity in the ring in the 1940s and early '50s, died this week — nearly 40 years after his obituary was written. That...
Sep 20, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, a brawling middleweight champion whose epic battles with Sugar Ray Robinson defined non-heavyweight boxing in the 1940s and early ’50s, has died, his fiancee said...
Jake LaMotta, one of boxing history’s most compelling figures and all-time great fighters, died Tuesday in Aventura, Florida, at age 95, his longtime fiancée, Denise Baker, confirmed. The Hall of Famer had been in hospice care at Palm Garden Nursing Home in recent weeks and succumbed following a battle with dysphagia pneumonia.
Attendance: 14, 755; Gate: $74, 434. Robinson's best round was the sixth. LaMotta rallied furiously in the 9th, 10th, and 11th rounds. "The fight followed the usual pattern (of the previous four fights between the two), Robinson flashing style in the early heats, then coasting when he could.
Sep 20, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, former middleweight champion and subject of the 1980 movie "Raging Bull," has died at the age of 95. LaMotta died because of complications from pneumonia and was in a nursing home...