Original photograph of middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta, inscribed by LaMotta

N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Italian-American champion boxer Jake LaMotta, taken in 1943 and struck circa 1990s, showing LaMotta knocking Sugar Ray Robinson through the ropes during one of their famed fights on February 5, 1943. INSCRIBED by LaMotta on the upper right corner: "to Joe / Jake LaMotta / Raging Bull."

LaMotta's 1970 memoir served as the basis for Martin Scorsese's award-winning 1980 film "Raging Bull," starring Robert De Niro as LaMotta.

LaMotta held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

10 x 8 inches. Fine.

[Book #167454]