In their first encounter during their sophomore year (both made their debut in 1941), Robinson gave away more than 10 pounds against LaMotta, who was already a full-blown middleweight. They were all amazing fights, but the last installment of their heated rivalry remains as one of the most brutal fights of that already brutal era of boxing. The last one came when LaMotta was already a world champion and Ray was coming up in weight after a brilliant career at 147 pounds. The first three came in rapid succession, as they were climbing the rankings in their younger days. Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta fought six times. After retiring from boxing in 1954, he owned a nightclub for a time in Miami, then dabbled in show business and commercials.Ever since The Bronx Bull took his 0, Sugar swore to wipe that bitterness away with a demolishing vengeance. 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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