He held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. LaMotta learned to box in reform school, and went pro in 1941. His father forced him to brawl with other children for the amusement of neighborhood adults, and even paid part of the family's rent with the coins tossed in the ring. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play īorn July 10, 1922, in New York City's Lower East Side and raised in the Bronx, LaMotta learned to fight at an early when he was very young.
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