![]() So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you’re a champ or you’re a contender.” Of the claim that Cerdan had to quit because of a shoulder injury, LaMotta said in 1970: “Something’s bound to happen to you in a tough fight, cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. 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 Nov. “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.” Senate committee investigating organized crime in 1960. LaMotta threw a fight against Billy Fox, which he admitted in testimony before the Kefauver Committee, a U.S. Trailing badly on all three scorecards, LaMotta knocked out the challenger with 13 seconds left in the fight. In the fight before he lost the title, LaMotta saved the championship in movie-script fashion against Laurent Dauthuille. LaMotta fought the great Sugar Ray Robinson six times, handing Robinson the first defeat of his career and losing the middleweight title to him in a storied match. The Bronx Bull, as he was known in his fighting days, compiled an 83-19-4 record with 30 knockouts, in a career that began in 1941 and ended in 1954. ![]() “Rest in Peace, Champ,” De Niro said in a statement. LaMotta died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to fiancee Denise Baker. ![]() MIAMI - 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 fiancee said Wednesday.
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