Pretty good fighter

Here's a fight several members of my family attended at Detroit's long gone Olympia Stadium;it's also Jake LaMotta's last great fight.LaMotta has always been a legend in my family(as a boxer...aside from his personal life).I think he fought in Detroit more than anywhere outside of New York-and he wore a Jewish star on his trunks in several of those fights;his mother was Jewish...anyway,here's a rematch between an over the hill LaMotta and Bob Murphy-a pretty tough guy from San Diego.LaMotta could take it..but he also knew what he was doing..

Poor Jake LaMotta. He blocked every punch with his face. He was probably one of the toughest fighters but not the greatest. His epic battles with Sugar Ray Robinson will be remembered by boxing fans for many many years. I feel he should have gone down a weight class. He did not have much power, had short stubby arms, and questionable defense skills. But for the absolute definition of what a fighter is look at Jake LaMotta. He was a great one, along with Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano.

lost to sugar ray robinson 5 times.no kudos for that.

Jake LaMotta is one of my personal favorites. He was just a big punch away from being a five star boxer in my book. The man did have a granite chin and was virtually immune to pain. Although he officially lost to the original Sugar Ray 5 out of 6 times, many experts felt he was entitled to definitely one and maybe two more wins. In that infamous title bout on Valentines Day 1951, Jake was weak from having to cut a great deal of weight in a short time frame. If you watch the old films he is more than holding his own, until he just totally runs out of gas late in the fight. Robinson, on the other hand was in his prime and in top flight condition. It was all downhill for Jake after that fight. He had great difficulty making weight and all the old battle wounds were beginning to take their toll. LaMotta was in fact knocked down and knocked out by hard hitting Floridian Danny Nardico in December of 1952. Still, they came no tougher than the Bronx Bull, a true champion in a Golden Era of boxing.

hES THE BEST MIDDLE WEIGHT EVER . sUCK ON THAT rAY

Good chin

Jake Lamotta, the 'Raging Bull', was truly remarkable. A fighter who fought with no real technique other than to physically overwhelm and punish opponents, the 'Bull' was crudely devastating. His beating of Marcel Cerdan was ugly and decisive. But his threshhold for pain was second to none. Perhaps his greatest fight was his bloody loss to Sugar Ray Robinson on Valentine's Day in 1951 as LaMotta took the most savage beating ever inflicted by one great fighter to another. Today's fighters would have been scared off by the granite-chinned LaMotta, who would have walked in and pummelled today's best middleweights.

1 of the hardest chins of all time

the man had a chin made out of steel. the greatest chin in HISTORY! ONLY BOXER TO NEVER GET KNOCKED DOWN, EVER!! i would give him five stars, but he didnt have a whole lot of power. "You didn't get me down, Ray. You didn't get me down." -Jake LaMotta

An all time great middleweight. He was as perfect a brawler that you could ask for, with the exception of his lack of one punch knockout power.

The words you never got me down Ray ,still rings proud and true .To Axlrod (just another Italian)you never got me down either.

First off I would like to tell axlrod 2003 that his ignorant comment proves he is either very young or very dumb! Jake is about as tough as they come.After 106 fights he was never knocked down.I didn`t say knocked out axlrod,I said knocked down! He was the 1st to beat Sugar Ray Robinson.He also floored Robinson in that fight.Something Sugar Ray could never do to Jake.Great champion.

Jake LaMotta had probably the hardest chin of all-time. He could take everything you had and not even flinch...tough SOB. Very good middleweight that defeated greats such as Zivic and Cerdan. But he's most known for his defeat and great saga against the greatest fighter of all-time, Sugar Ray Robinson. LaMotta beat Robinson only once, but knocked him down(something Robinson never did to LaMotta). Jake gave the greatest fighter to ever live six of the toughest fights of all-time, and you gotta be pretty damn good to do that.

What a tough, tough bastard! His fights with Sugar Ray Robinson made them both legends. Irrelevant note: Raging Bull is easily the best boxing movie ever.