Dead Pool Alert. Jake LaMotta DEAD

[TommyGavin 788]

.MIAMI Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life was depicted in the film Raging Bull, has died at the age of 95.

 

His fiancee, Denise Baker, says LaMotta died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia.

 

The Bronx Bull, as he was known in his fighting days, compiled an 83-19-4 record with 30 knockouts.

 

LaMotta fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times, handing Robinson his first defeat. He lost the middleweight title to him in what became known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre.

 

In his previous fight, LaMotta saved the championship in movie-script fashion against Laurent Dauthuille. Trailing badly, LaMotta knocked out the challenger with 13 seconds left.

 

 

LaMotta threw a fight against Billy Fox, which he admitted in testimony before a U.S. Senate committee. He said he was promised a shot at a title.

 

On June 16, 1949, he became middleweight champion when Marcel Cerdan couldnt continue after the 10th round.

 

The 1980 film Raging Bull was based on LaMottas memoir. Actor Robert DeNiro won an Academy Award for it.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

Fiancée. Lol.

[edjr 5,547]

Overrated

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Overrated

Both the fighter and the film. Vastly.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

Both the fighter and the film. Vastly.

Agree

[edjr 5,547]

Both the fighter and the film. Vastly.

 

[Posty] never seen either one [/Posty]

[Mookz 1,287]

Fiancée. Lol.

 

This guy gets the championship belt of stringing people along.

[vuduchile 1,940]

You guys are nuts.

 

The movie was Deniro and Pesci at their finest.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,589]

You guys are nuts.

 

The movie was Deniro and Pesci at their finest.

If was in black and white and they slow mowed the fight sequences. That's what the big deal was. Good fellas blows it away.

[vuduchile 1,940]

If was in black and white and they slow mowed the fight sequences. That's what the big deal was. Good fellas blows it away.

I'm not even talking about the fight scenes. Their dialogue while sitting in the living room or the kitchen table was worth the price of admission.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

You guys are nuts.

 

The movie was Deniro and Pesci at their finest.

Meh, they were good for 10 minutes, then they went for another 2 hours. Scorsese kept upping the shock factor, but the film was basically the same vignette shown 12 different ways.