LaMotta inherited some of that temper and was often prodded by his father to fight other children in the street for sport. His father would tie him up and beat him with a broomstick, to which he nailed leather strips, for any transgression. His father, a foul-tempered migrant from Sicily “was really a mean son of a bitch”, according to LaMotta. Born Giacobbe LaMotta in 1922, his American-born mother called him “Giacobino” but to others he was Jake.
LaMotta knocked out Cerdan in the 10th round to become the new World Middleweight Boxing Champion.īeing immortalised on screen showed how far this boy from the Bronx had come. Jake LaMotta (right) fights Marcel Cerdan in Detroit, Michigan on June 16, 1949. Both were famous in their own right, but LaMotta, who died this week at the age of 95, also became well known to a new generation when Robert DeNiro gave an Oscar-winning performance playing him in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 biographical film, Raging Bull. Robinson followed his loss with a 91-fight winning streak, along the way winning his first world title in 1946. Robinson won their next stoush a few weeks later, but LaMotta had earned a place in history as the only boxer to beat Sugar Ray. He survived the last two rounds, but LaMotta had control and was declared the winner on points. In the early rounds Robinson was ahead on points, but in the eighth LaMotta fired up and knocked Robinson through the ropes, his first knockdown in a fight.
This was the second time the two had entered the ring together and it wouldn’t be the last, but it would be memorable because the LaMotta brought Robinson’s winning streak to a temporary end. SUGAR Ray Robinson had never lost a professional fight when he met Jake LaMotta in Februin Detroit.
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