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Feb 8, 2016 · Jake La Motta knocks Sugar Ray Robinson through the ropes during their third fight. Photograph: AP. In early 1943, most of Europe and South East Asia was on fire as the battles of the second world ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Three more hard-fought battles awaited, two of them extremely close, until the feud climaxed with the brutal struggle that was the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”. — Robert Portis. Feb. 5, 1943: Robinson vs LaMotta II. Jake LaMotta scores a rare victory over the great Sugar Ray Robinson and thus begins one of boxing's great rivalries.
LaMotta was knocked down in the 7th by a right hand. LaMotta's corner stopped the bout between the 7th and 8th rounds. LaMotta was unable to come out for the 8th round. World Middleweight title Scoring at time of knockout: 72-68, 74-66, 71-69 Dauthuille 1950 Fight of the Year - Ring Magazine "All Dauthuille required when he bell sounded for the ...
Feb 14, 2024 · But their final clash, LaMotta vs Robinson, Part Six, is the most famous for the fact it was a massacre, the legendary “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”. 1943: LaMotta scores an historic victory. Both LaMotta and Robinson turned pro in 1941, Ray a welterweight, Jake a solid middleweight. Ray got off to a fast start as a pro and by the time ...
Feb 14, 2016 · Jake LaMotta was Sugar Ray Robinson's bloody Valentine 65 years ago in a savage world middleweight title fight. "I fought Sugar Ray so often I almost got diabetes," Jake LaMotta has often joked ...
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 Wednesday.
