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  • Jake LaMotta fought like a honey badger. He didn't give a shit.

  • I have been looking for this fight. It took place at the coliseum at the nys fairgrounds. Nobody even knows they had fights there. Amazing. Thanks!

  • Joey DeJohn is related to John DeJohn, a great trainer who trained my hero, the best welterweight of his time, a resident on my city of Rochester, NY, and conqueror of Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio.

  • The golden age of boxing!

  • Jake moved towards every punch. He didn't have a granite chin for nothing! One of the toughest.

  • He won this fight too by the way.

  • This waqy he also avoids the left jab.

  • I mean clockwise!

  • How is moving clockwise a good thing? He's moving TOWARDS the punch.

  • How is moving clockwise a good thing? He's moving TOWARDS the punch.

  • @corytclark iT AINT a good thing! lol not alotta other fighters fight in this way, but coz laMotta was so tough, you see, thas why they call him the raging/bronx bull!

  • This is a fantastic find! Notice how Jake is working counter clockwise to stay away from DeJohn's loaded right punch!

  • Nice footage of the pre-championship LaMotta. Excellent post. Jakes's effective jab and defensive skills tend to be underrated. Great fighter.

  • what year was this?

  • This fight was on the 18th of May 1949.

    Jake's next fight was with Marcel Cerdan for the title.

  • Do you have the rest of the fight? The fight ended in the 8th round...

  • @HSJ90 ---is this the fight where jake teed off on the guy, because his wife said the guy was kind of good looking? (at least that was the line in the movie)

  • @loyaldude10 no that was janero?

  • @loyaldude10 that was tony janero. member everyone said he was good lookin, even jake cracked that joke about "i gotta problem coz i dunno weather ta fuck im or fight im." to tommy como. well, like you said, in the movie. i aint read the book. but i do member the one with the rep for bein "good lookin" was "that janero kid"

  • @olamf1977 are you italian american? cos ha how you write

  • @kareemabdullah LOL i do write jus like how i talk, and i am part italian, but im not like a full on "brooklyn wop" like some a my reletives. im more french canadian than anything else. i just like a little steet colour ta my rap, u dig?

  • Amazing footage.

  • Thanks!

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