Word: lamotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...
...ever knew: wade in and throw punches. The difficulty was connecting solidly. Once in a while Jake landed a hard one, and in the fifth, with a heavy right, he drew blood from Sugar's nose and made his hair stand on end. But a lot of other LaMotta punches, good when they left the shoulder, found the elusive Sugar going away...
...Intervention. For Jake LaMotta, making the best fight of his plodding career, the eleventh and twelfth rounds were nightmares: Sugar Ray hit him with everything-jabs, hooks, straight rights, curving, underhand bolo punches-from the most varied locker of punches in boxing. Any ordinary fight would have been stopped by the referee in the eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found...
Middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta was polite last week. Whenever his challenger, Italy's Tiberio Mitri, lunged off balance in the ring at New York's Madison Square Garden, Gentleman Jake stepped back and let him recover. When the fight was over, LaMotta had won a unanimous decision, but the crowd booed him from habit just the same. Said a plaintive LaMotta next day: "I know the fans don't like me because of my poor fights with Billy Fox and Robert Villemain. But I'm turning over a new leaf. I've got a psychologist...
...Among Catholic prizefighting champs: John L Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Gene Tunney, Freddie Cochrane, Willie Pep, Jake LaMotta...