Mikaela Mayer: Women's Boxing Is Back For Good LaMotta isn’t one of the greatest middleweights of all-time but he was certainly one of the division’s toughest.įive Boxing Stories You Might Have Missed This Week Thanks to the film, viewers know more about the exploits of LaMotta out of the ring, rather than in it. Raging Bull, while not entirely accurate, gave viewers a fascinating insight into the self-destructive tendencies and rage that followed LaMotta throughout his career. But despite being one of the most revered pictures in cinema history, Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull’s protagonist, remains an enigmatic character to most. A Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity is included.When director Martin Scorsese released the biographical drama Raging Bull in 1980, it became the magnum opus of boxing films. Jake LaMotta has hand signed this 8x10 Photo of himself vs Jackie Wilson. So fascinating was LaMottas life and career that director Martin Scorsese made the film classic Raging Bull about him with Robert De Niro delivering an Oscar-winning performance as La Motta. Later LaMotta captured the World Middleweight Title from the legendary Frenchman Marcel Cerdan. LaMotta claimed to have taken a dive against Blackjack Billy Fox in New York City.

He was the first fighter to defeat the great Sugar Ray Robinson Robinson was 40-0.

Turning pro in the early 1940s LaMotta ran up an impressive undefeated streak before losing. In over 110 fights against the greatest middleweights in history LaMotta was only knocked to the canvas once in his entire 14-year career. Jake LaMotta had one of the best chins in boxing history.

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