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 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.

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.

Boxing legend Jake LaMotta, the onetime middleweight champion of the world who was played by Robert De Niro in 1980’s “Raging Bull,” died Tuesday, his fiancee told the Associated Press. He ...

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 ...

LaMotta threw a fight against Billy Fox, which he admitted in testimony before the Kefauver Committee, a U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime in 1960.

Boxing legend and former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta — famous for his defiant endurance in the ring and for Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning portrayal of him in the 1980 film “Raging ...

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 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.

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.