He started fighting when he was 8 years old, fighting for pennies and nickels and dimes the old Italian men in the neighborhood would give to the winner.

'He grew up in poverty on New York's Lower East Side. 'LaMotta says he was born angry,' NPR's Tom Goldman reported in 1997.

His career was also marked by endurance, as he submitted to extraordinary physical punishment and suffering. In his autobiography, which inspired the film, LaMotta describes beating his wives and raping another woman. Denise Baker was left a widow and after her husband died she and LaMotta. The couple had first met in 1992 when she was a married mother of two. The two dated for a while before tying the knot, at the time Jake was 92-years-old and Denise Baker 62. She became Jake’s seventh and final wife in 2013. It vividly depicts LaMotta's struggles in his career, as well as some of the domestic violence that the boxer has admitted to perpetrating. Denise LaMotta is the former Denise Baker. Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, won an Oscar for De Niro and is now regarded as a modern classic. His longtime partner Denise Baker told NPR that LaMotta died Tuesday from complications of pneumonia. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysisīoxer Jake LaMotta, the former world middleweight champion and the inspiration for the movie Raging Bull, has died at age 95. Nicknamed ' The Bronx Bull ' or ' Raging Bull ', LaMotta was a rough fighter who was not a particularly big puncher, but would subject his opponents to vicious beatings in the ring. Former world middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta attends a dinner in New York City in 2012. Giacobbe ' Jake ' LaMotta (J September 19, 2017) was an American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 19.

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