Those bouts earned him money to pay the family’s rent. He’d fight other kids for street-side entertainment. LaMotta grew up in a rat-infested Bronx tenement. But arguably no boxer over the last 100 years, outside Muhammad Ali and maybe Mike Tyson in his prime, left a firmer imprint on American culture. LaMotta’s combustable life, both inside and outside the ring, were brilliantly captured in Raging Bull, the 1980 Martin Scorsese film that won Robert De Niro, who portrayed LaMotta, an Oscar, and is recognized as one of the best and most influential movies ever made.Īmerica has seen more impressive athletes than Jake LaMotta. His bouts with Robinson defined boxing in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when the sport soared in popularity. Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight boxing champion who died Wednesday at age 95 from complications from pneumonia, handed Sugar Ray Robinson, the man that many sweaty scholars of the sweet science consider the best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, his first-ever loss.
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