Jake LaMotta was Sugar Ray Robinson's bloody Valentine 65 years ago in a savage world middleweight title fight. "I fought Sugar Ray so often I almost got diabetes," Jake LaMotta has often joked ...

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Jake LaMotta made a surprise 11th hour appearance ... though the shakeup didn’t at all deter ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson. The man hailed by many as the greatest ever in boxing history soars into ...

Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta.... Sugar Ray Robinson: Fighting Toward Transcendence ...

CHAMPION boxer Sugar Ray Robinson had never lost a professional fight until he met Jake LaMotta in February 5, 1943 in Detroit. It was the second time they had met, but it was Sugar Ray’s first ...

Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled ... Denise Baker. LaMotta handed Sugar Ray Robinson his first defeat and reigned for nearly two years as middleweight champion during a time ...

LaMotta was knocked out in four rounds by “Blackjack’’ Fox at MSG. Suspecting a fix, New York State suspended LaMotta, and in testimony in 1960 before the U.S. Senate Kefauver Committee, he ...

He was 95. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File) ORG XMIT: NY160 3 of 10 FILE– Sugar Ray Robinson, right, battles Jake LaMotta for the middleweight championship at Chicago Stadium, in this Feb ...

Jake LaMotta handed Sugar Ray Robinson his first loss, putting a big blemish on the pound-for-pound picture of perfection. LaMotta and Robinson fought six times, with Robinson taking the first and ...

With Robinson heading for World War II service ... From left, boxing legends Floyd Patterson, Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Leonard show off their champion fists in Washington in 1996.

Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled ... Denise Baker. LaMotta handed Sugar Ray Robinson his first defeat and reigned for nearly two years as middleweight champion during a time ...