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.

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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.

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

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Jake LaMotta | 1921 – 2017

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