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's ...

MIAMI (AP) — Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film "Raging Bull," for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award, has died, his ...

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.

Boxing legend and former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta — famous for his defiant endurance in the ring and for Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning portrayal of him in the 1980 film “Raging ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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.

Jake LaMotta's wife was Denise Baker. The 'Raging Bull' boxer died on September 20 at the age of 95. The couple lived in Arizona together.

Jake LaMotta, a brawling middleweight champion whose epic battles with Sugar Ray Robinson defined non-heavyweight boxing in the 1940s and early ’50s, has died, his fiancee said Wednesday.

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 ...