In a 2013 interview with Time, the actor recalled reading La Motta’s memoir for the first time and being moved by his story. Though Scorsese directed the movie, it was De Niro’s idea to make the film-to the point where it became his obsession. To boxing and film fans, La Motta will forever be known as the Raging Bull, an unforgettable fighter and subject of the eponymous black-and-white drama, which starred a young De Niro as the hotheaded champ.
In a short statement, Robert De Niro acknowledged La Motta’s passing: “Rest in Peace, Champ.” “I just want people to know, he was a great, sweet, sensitive, strong, compelling man with a great sense of humor, with eyes that danced,” she told the outlet.
TMZ first reported the news on Wednesday, revealing that the boxer’s wife said he died in a nursing home due to complications from pneumonia.
3 tamper resistant are holograms affixed to each item.Jack La Motta, the fiery boxer whose life story was immortalized in the 1980 Martin Scorsese-directed film Raging Bull, has died. The Official Jake LaMotta Page Twitter: JLamotta I Instagram. and comes with a photo of LaMotta signing the piece. This piece comes authenticated by Authentic Signings, Inc. Jake said this to Sugar Ray Robinson after the fight was stopped by the referee on the St Valentines Day Massacre, in Chicago, IL. This item is very special as Jake has added "Ray I Never Went Down". At Ring Magazine's 75th Anniversary Dinner, Jake LaMotta was recognized as having the best chin in boxing over the last 75 years. But he works off his sins in the boxing ring, where his greatest athletic talent is his ability to withstand punishment. Jake is as frightening as he is pathetic, unable to control or comprehend the baser instincts that periodically, and without warning, turn him into the rampaging beast of the title. He marries a striking young blond his sexual ideal, and then terrorizes her with never-ending accusations of infidelity. Robert DeNiro plays LaMotta, a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s.
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