Jake LaMotta, who died earlier this year aged 95, had a headache before New Year's Eve 1952 was over after he was knocked off his feet for the first time in his career. Although the Bronx Bull had ...

Jake LaMotta, right, fights Marcel Cerdan in Briggs Stadium in Detroit in 1949. ... he was not granted a chance to fight for the championship until after he agreed to play along with the gangsters.

The 1980 Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull was about Jake LaMotta, a legendary boxer known for his exciting brawling style, who died Tuesday. By James Brady @jamesbradyisme Sep 21, 2017, 9:07am EDT ...

LaMotta had compiled a 64-11-3 record by late 1947 but hadn't gotten a shot at the championship. Organized crime controlled much of boxing at the time, so to get a title fight, LaMotta agreed to ...

Jake LaMotta was Sugar Ray Robinson's bloody Valentine 65 years ago in a savage world middleweight title fight, considered one of the most famous bouts in boxing history.

Jake LaMotta, who died earlier this year aged 95, had a headache before New Year's Eve 1952 was over after he was knocked off his feet for the first time in his career. Although the Bronx Bull had ...

FILE – In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, Jake LaMotta, left, of the Bronx borough of New York, and Ray Robinson of the Harlem section of New York, fight at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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.

Jake LaMotta, right, bends over and yelps after taking a stinging right from defending champion Sugar Ray Robinson in the third round of their Middleweight Championship fight at Chicago Stadium ...

Former boxing world champion Jake LaMotta has died at 95. His colorful life was the subject of a book and an Academy Award winning movie, Raging Bull.

Jake LaMotta delievers a jab to Fritzie Zivoic's left side during their fight in 1943. Hank Olen/New York Daily News LaMotta's career as a boxer lasted nearly 10 years.