The film was based on LaMotta’s memoirs, Raging Bull: My Story (1970), co-written with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage, and republished on several occasions. Jake LaMotta, former boxer whose life was subject of Raging Bull, dies aged 95 Read moreLaMotta would boast, “no son-of-a-bitch ever knocked me off my feet” – not strictly true as he was floored in one of his last fights, by Danny Nardico in 1952. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jake LaMotta, right, fights Marcel Cerdan in Detroit in 1949. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jake LaMotta with Robert De Niro at a boxing match in New York in 1980. • Giacobbe “Jake” LaMotta, boxer, born 10 July 1922; died 19 September 2017

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 16:13 UTC