He testified to receiving $100,000 US, minus a $20,000 payment given to French champion Marcel Cerdan's handlers.
Senator Estes Kefauver in 1960, LaMotta admitted he lied when he told the New York district attorney days after the Fox bout that it was on the up and up. Senate subcommittee hearing years after his career ended, he admitted that, in exchange for a promised title shot, he took a dive in a 1947 bout against Billy Fox, who he said "couldn't dent a bowl of yogurt."Īt those hearings called by U.S. Worse yet, LaMotta was a party to, and helped blow the lid off, a barely held secret - underworld control of boxing. The media, however,deemed it a "blood-letting fight." Confirmed underworld influence on boxing ''If the fight had gone another 20 seconds, Sugar Ray would have collapsed from hitting me so much," LaMotta quipped decades later about the 14th-round stoppage. 14, 1951, bout that became known as the St. Most notably, LaMotta was pounded relentlessly by Robinson in a Feb. LaMotta was also a poster boy for the brutality of boxing, through his extreme capacity to absorb punishment, never getting knocked down in his prime. pose for photographers at Madison Square Garden in New York on April 7, 2006, in a ceremony commemorating boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson Sr. LaMotta, left, and Sugar Ray Robinson Jr.
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