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Jake LaMotta | 1921 – 2017

Former world middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta speaks during the 27th annual Great Sports Legends Dinner in New York City in 2012.

Former world middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta speaks during the 27th annual Great Sports Legends Dinner in New York City in 2012.

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Jake LaMotta | 1922 – 2017

Robert De Niro, left, and boxer Jake LaMotta attend a 25th anniversary screening of the movie “Raging Bull,” in which De Niro plays a boxer based on LaMotta’s autobiography.

  (Julie Jacobson / Associated Press)

Jake LaMotta | 1922 – 2017

From left, boxing legends Floyd Patterson, Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Leonard show off their champion fists in Washington in 1996.

  (Mark Wilson / Associated Press)

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