Giacobbe ‘Jake’ LaMotta was an American professional boxer, world middleweight champion, and stand-up comedian. Nicknamed ‘The Bronx Bull’ or ‘Raging Bull’, he was known for being a’swarmer’ and a’sl slugger’ His six-fight rivalry with Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most notable in the sport. He died of a heart attack at the age of 83.
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Giacobbe ‘Jake’ LaMotta was an American professional boxer, world middleweight champion, and stand-up comedian. Nicknamed ‘The Bronx Bull’ or ‘Raging Bull’, he was known for being a’swarmer’ and a’sl slugger’ His six-fight rivalry with Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most notable in the sport. He was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He died of a heart attack at the age of 83. He is survived by his brother Joey and his daughter Christi, both of whom are still alive and living in the U.S. Today, Jake is remembered as one of New York’s most famous sports stars and one of its best-loved sports stars of all time, along with Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano. He had a thick skull and jaw muscles, which allowed him to absorb incredible amounts of punishment over the course of his career. His chin is thought to be the greatest in boxing history, and he was nicknamed the ‘Bronx Bull’ because of his rough style of fighting. His father forced him to fight other boys in order to entertain neighborhood adults, who threw pocket change into the ring. He learned to box while in a reformatory in upstate New York, where he’d been sent for attempted robbery. Afterward he fought undefeated in amateur bouts, turning professional at age 19 in 1941. During World War II, he was rejected for military service; he had a mastoid operation as a child on one of his ears and it affected his hearing.
As a middleweight in his first fifteen bouts, he went 14–0–1 before losing a highly controversial split decision to Jimmy Reeves in Reeves’ hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Fights broke out around the ring and the crowd continued to boo for 20 minutes. The arena’s organist tried to calm down the crowd by playing the \”Star Spangled Banner\”. One month later, LaMota and Reeves fought again in the same arena, La motta lost a much less controversial decision. The two met on February 26, 1943, at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in what was Robinson’s former home. Robinson was knocked down for a nine-count in the seventh round of the fight. The fight was short-lived, as the two met again in another 10-round fight once again in February 1944. Robinson won the fight via unanimous decision, giving Robinson the first defeat of his professional career. The eighth round was historic, as LaMatta landed a right to Robinson’s head and a left to his body, sending him through the ropes, leading to the score of nine-point pummeled and out of the ring, before knocking him out. Robinson later stated, “He really hurt me with a left in the 7th round.’” The fight ended in a draw, and Robinson later said, ‘He really left me with what was what was left in me in that round’
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