Raging Bull Sparknotes

Summary: Nicknamed as "The Raging Bull", Jake LaMotta was a rough fighter who, not being a hard puncher would savagely beat his opponents in the ring. A movie has been produced based on his: memoir, Raging Bull: My Story. This movie received critical acclamation for both director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro.

He used to stalk, brawl inside the ring and had developed a reputation of being “bully”. LaMotta was ready to absorb unimaginable amounts of punches over the course of his career, and is believed to possess one among the best chins in boxing history.

LaMotta's six-fight conflict with Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most noteworthy in the sport, but LaMotta won only one of the sessions.

Facts of Jake LaMotta:

Birth Nation:

His mother was born to Italian immigrants while his father was an immigrant from Messina. He was sent to a reformatory for attempting robbery, where he learned Boxing. He began to wrestle professionally at the age of 19, in 1941.

During world war 2, he was turn down from military service due to the Mastoid operation he had during his childhood.

Boxing Career:

In his first fifteen Bouts as a middleweight, LaMotta went 14–0–1 (3 Kos) before losing to Jimmy Reeves in Cleveland, Ohio. One month later they fought again in the same place, Reeves beat LaMotta yet another time.

In October, 1942 LaMotta fought Sugar Ray Robinson in his middleweight debut. Robinson won that match via unanimous 10-round decision. Rivalry between Robinson and Lamotta was the most historic rivalry at that time. Lamotta was the only boxer to defeat Robinson in 1943 bout.

LaMotta fought total 106 times, he won 83 times and lost 19 times, 4 of them were draw.

One of the most notable rivals of LaMotta was Billy fox. Billy fox knocked out LaMotta in the fifth round. New York State Athletic Commission suspects the match to be fixed and suspended LaMotta.

LaMotta, in his testimony acknowledged that he lost that match to gain favor of