Jake LaMotta

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Jake LaMotta boxer
Jake LaMotta
Data
Birth Name Giacobbe LaMotta
Weight class medium weight
nationality US-american
birthday July 10, 1922
place of birth new York
Date of death 19th September 2017
style Left delivery
size 1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 106
Victories 83
Knockout victories 30th
Defeats 19th
draw 4th

Jake LaMotta , also known as The Bronx Bull and The Raging Bull (born July 10, 1922 in New York - † September 19, 2017 in Aventura , Florida ; actually Giacobbe LaMotta ) was an American boxer. The Italian American was world middleweight champion from 1949 to 1951.

LaMotta was a typical pressure fighter with a legendary chin. The Ring Magazine chose him as the best boxer with rugged qualities of the story. In 1990 LaMotta was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame .

Life

Career

LaMotta lost on the instructions of the Mafia the fight in November 1947 against Billy Fox, on whom the Mafia had bet, what later made the world championship fight possible for him. He won the title in a fight against the highly favored French Marcel Cerdan on June 16, 1949 in Detroit by knockout in the tenth round. Cerdan had dislocated his shoulder early and had to give up. Before there could be a rematch, Cerdan died in a plane crash on Monte Redondo .

After LaMotta had great difficulties defending his title against the French Laurent Dauthille, he managed a knockout in the very last round. On February 14, 1951, he finally lost the title in Chicago by breaking off in the 13th round to Sugar Ray Robinson .

He fought a total of six fights against his arch-rival Robinson, but could only win once, on February 5, 1943 in Detroit . It was also Robinson's first ever defeat. At that time, however, Robinson was still a welterweight, while LaMotta was a middleweight.

family

As of 2014, LaMotta was married to Denise Baker for the seventh time. Daughter Christi and sons Jake Jr. and Joe, both of whom died in 1998, are from his second marriage to Vikki. Daughter Stephanie comes from his fourth marriage to Dimitria. He had two other daughters. He was the uncle of the actor John LaMotta .

death

Jake LaMotta passed away on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, according to a message from his daughter Christ on Facebook. As his wife Denise Baker told ABC television, LaMotta succumbed to the effects of pneumonia in a nursing home in Miami.

Film adaptation of the memoir

His life was filmed in 1980 with Robert De Niro as LaMotta under the title Raging Bull (Eng .: like a wild bull ). His autobiography Raging Bull: My Story (see sources) served as a template. LaMotta has proven to be successful as a personal advisor to De Niro, which ended with De Niro receiving an Oscar for his convincing performance.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jake LaMotta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Richard Goldstein: Jake LaMotta, 'Raging Bull' in and Out of the Ring, Dies at 95 . NYTimes.com , September 20, 2017, accessed September 21, 2017.
    Biography . ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )     Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jake Lamotta's website, accessed September 21, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / officialjakelamotta.com
  2. ↑ Josh Robbins: Jake LaMotta dead: Family members report passing of 'Raging Bull' boxing legend aged 96 . International Business Times , September 20, 2017, accessed September 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jeff Merron: Reel Life: 'Raging Bull' . ESPN.com , July 3, 2002, accessed September 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ Boxing legend: Jake LaMotta is dead . In: Spiegel Online . September 20, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME LaMotta, Jake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LaMotta, Giacobe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American middleweight boxer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1921 or July 10, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2017