LaMotta was born July 10, 1922, on New York City’s Lower East Side but was raised in the Bronx. Jake LaMotta, right, fighting Marcel Cerdan for the world title. On June 16, 1949, in Detroit, he became middleweight champion when the Frenchman Marcel Cerdan couldn’t continue after the 10th round. He didn’t get a title shot until 10 fights later.
LaMotta was “stopped” by Fox in the fourth round on November 14, 1947, in Madison Square Garden. “I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did,” LaMotta said in 1970 interview printed in Peter Heller’s 1973 book ‘In This Corner: 40 World Champions Tell Their Stories’. LaMotta threw a fight against Billy Fox, which he admitted in testimony before a US Senate committee investigating organised crime in 1960. Jake LaMotta, left, fights Sugar Ray Robinson at Madison Square Garden.
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