New Posts For Thread: Jake La Motta passes away, aged 95https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95The original 'Raging Bull' is gone.Of course this was when boxing was boxing......15 rounds, not like the 12 round handbags being bandied about today. La Motta even squared up to Robinson twice in three weeks. Now you have to wait three years.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552879423#552879423Of course this was when boxing was boxing......15 rounds, not like the 12 round handbags being bandied about today. La Motta even squared up to Robinson twice in three weeks. Now you have to wait three years.Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:26:43 -0500The amazing thing was that he blootered Robinson in the previous round and then run out of steam in the next. A man who feared nobody including the mafia.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552879351#552879351The amazing thing was that he blootered Robinson in the previous round and then run out of steam in the next. A man who feared nobody including the mafia.Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:12:17 -0500That was a great bit of video stewart!I think La Motta was saved by the ref there. He took some huge ones and looked in a lot of trouble but the fact he was still standing when the ref saved him is amazing. I haven't read the article yet but am savinhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552875527#552875527That was a great bit of video stewart!I think La Motta was saved by the ref there. He took some huge ones and looked in a lot of trouble but the fact he was still standing when the ref saved him is amazing. I haven't read the article yet but am savinTue, 26 Sep 2017 10:30:50 -0500....If you were a fly ?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552873657#552873657....If you were a fly ?Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:01:18 -0500good piece in the times today by matthew syed when he interviewed him a few years ago,seems like la motta was still pretty menacing even when he was in his eighties.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552873557#552873557good piece in the times today by matthew syed when he interviewed him a few years ago,seems like la motta was still pretty menacing even when he was in his eighties.Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:10:26 -0500"You wont put me on the deck Ray".http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/tao-jake-lamotta/https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552866831#552866831"You wont put me on the deck Ray".http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/tao-jake-lamotta/Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:16:57 -0500It was a crime to which LaMotta confessed in his memoirs, published after the bookie – who never knew the identity of his assailant – had died. The fighter also admitted to having raped a woman as well as beating the women he married. He spoke ofhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552866375#552866375It was a crime to which LaMotta confessed in his memoirs, published after the bookie – who never knew the identity of his assailant – had died. The fighter also admitted to having raped a woman as well as beating the women he married. He spoke ofSun, 24 Sep 2017 10:23:35 -0500I wouldn't wish to judge him but he does not appear to have been a decent fellowOld/Apocryphal(?) story from when the film was released..Apparently LaMotta and his wife went to the premiere of 'Raging Bull'. Afterwards he turned to her and said "washttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552857505#552857505I wouldn't wish to judge him but he does not appear to have been a decent fellowOld/Apocryphal(?) story from when the film was released..Apparently LaMotta and his wife went to the premiere of 'Raging Bull'. Afterwards he turned to her and said "wasFri, 22 Sep 2017 16:07:05 -0500I only got round to reading the book at the start of the year. Not only amazing at the time to think he was still alive but it was amazing to think that after all that it was pretty much only half his life . Great book just reading about being broughhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552852441#552852441I only got round to reading the book at the start of the year. Not only amazing at the time to think he was still alive but it was amazing to think that after all that it was pretty much only half his life . Great book just reading about being broughThu, 21 Sep 2017 15:12:27 -0500That was a good film.I would also just like to say Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30948485/jake-la-motta-passes-away-aged-95?post_id=552850751#552850751That was a good film.I would also just like to say Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:09:33 -0500