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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.
It was a close fight for five rounds, a fierce struggle that kept the fans in an uproar. Reeves kept inside LaMotta's swings and jarred Jake with right and left uppercuts to the head. But he slugged it out with LaMotta in round four, a hint that he was tiring and becoming desperate.
Sep 15, 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.”
Apr 2, 2014 · Boxing champion Jake LaMotta was the subject of Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. Learn more about his life in and out of the ring at Biography.com.
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...
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.
Sep 20, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, the uncompromising fighter portrayed by Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, has died aged 95. The former world middleweight boxing champion died in a nursing home due to...
Sep 21, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film ''Raging Bull,'' has died. He was 95.
Former world middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta has died due to complications from pneumonia, aged 95. Real name Giacobbe LaMotta, the American’s death was announced by a relatives on...
Sep 20, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, the former world middleweight boxing champion who has died aged 95, was raised on some of the meanest streets in New York and established himself as one of the most...
