FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2005, file photo, Robert DeNiro, left, and boxer Jake LaMotta stand for photographers before watching a 25th anniversary screening of the movie "Raging Bull" in New York.

Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight boxing champion who died Wednesday at age 95 from complications from pneumonia, handed Sugar Ray Robinson, the man that many sweaty scholars of the sweet science ...

FILE PHOTO: Former middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta poses in New York October 28, 2009. LaMotta learned to fight with an ice pick in his hand in a Bronx schoolyard, battering all the way in ...

MIAMI (CBSNewYork/AP) — Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film "Raging Bull," for which Robert DeNiro won an Academy Award, has died, ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) - Jake LaMotta, the boxing champion whose rise and fall inspired Martin Scorsese's 1980 film "Raging Bull," is dead, according to reports. He was 95. LaMotta died Tuesday at a ...

With Robinson heading for World War II service in the Army, LaMotta turned to other opponents — he fought Fritzie Zivic four times in less than a year — but they got together again twice in 1945, with ...

(Reuters) - Jake LaMotta, the brutish former boxing champion whose life of violence in and out of the ring was portrayed in the movie "Raging Bull," died on Tuesday, according to one of his daughters.

Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film Raging Bull, for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award, has died, his fiancee said ...