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.
