I met Jake LaMotta in ‘79 on the “Raging Bull” set in LA. He was there every day as a consultant. He was Jake — but he was not the Jake in the movie. Those years had passed. He was very ...

There’s an old story about how Jake LaMotta kept squirming in his seat while watching his life story unfold during the 1980 premiere of “Raging Bull. Growing upset at the way Martin Scorsese ...

Jake LaMotta is famous for crushing “tomato cans” journeymen boxers rather than crushed tomatoes. Yet that’s exactly what the infamous former middleweight champion has been up to in his ...

Purses were withheld, and LaMotta was suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission. From left, boxing legends Floyd Patterson, Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Leonard show off their champion ...

Throughout his controversial and eventful life, Jake LaMotta was married seven times. At the time of his death, LaMotta’s seventh wife, Denise Baker, was by his side. It was Baker who confirmed ...

Boxing legend Jake LaMotta, the onetime middleweight champion of the world who was played by Robert De Niro in 1980’s “Raging Bull,” died Tuesday, his fiancee told the Associated Press.

Darnell Nurse has family members who have played professional football and basketball. Leon Draisaitl ’s father played and ...

Boxer Jake LaMotta was famous for dishing out punishing beatings in the ring. But LaMotta — who inspired Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece “Raging Bull” and died this week at 95 — wasn ...

Jake LaMotta, boxing’s “Raging Bull,” who brawled his way to the middleweight boxing championship in a life of unbridled fury within the ring and outside it, and whose life became the ...

Former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta, the gritty boxer portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film "Raging Bull," died Tuesday at the age of 95. Denise Baker, the wife of LaMotta ...