It's still used by Hollywood training: more recently Colin Farrell (for The Recruit) and Hilary Swank (for Million Dollar Baby) buffed up here. LaMotta spars with his brother Joey ( Joe Pesci) at the famous ‘Gleason’s’ Gym’, which used to be at 149th Street at Third Avenue in the Bronx, until 1974,when it moved to 83 Front Street, Brooklyn. In New York, LaMotta’s neighbourhood is Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, where apartment interiors were shot, although the exterior of his apartment is 447 West 56th Street at 10th Avenue in Manhattan's old Hell’s Kitchen district. His strategy in that fight, the story noted, was the same one he used in every fight: “wade in and throw punches.Raging Bull location: LaMotta's 'Florida' home: Cabrillo Boulevard, Venice Beach, Los AngelesĪlso in LA are the ‘Florida’ home of the older LaMotta ( Robert De Niro), which is 3460 Cabrillo Boulevard at Palms Boulevard, in Venice Beach, kitted out with a couple of palm trees and also his nightclub, which is now Zona VIP, a male strip club at 1331 South Pacific Avenue at West 14th Street, a few blocks south of the famous Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed ‘The Bronx Bull.'” In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet.
In the book, LaMotta wrote that he had earned the moniker for his style in the ring: “charge out of the corner, punch, punch, punch, never give up, take all the punishment the other guy could hand out but stay in there, slug and slug and slug.” And in 1951, when LaMotta lost his middleweight championship title to Sugar Ray Robinson, TIME explained how the name had gained extra meaning as the fighter’s career progressed: “Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw.
The two also shared a title, a reference to the nickname that followed the boxer throughout his career. The acclaimed movie “ canonized and cauterized” the boxer, in the words of TIME’s film critic Richard Corliss, as filmmaker Martin Scorsese translated onto the big screen the “nostalgic nightmare” of LaMotta’s 1970 memoir. In the decades after his boxing career came to an end, Jake LaMotta - who has died at the age of 95 - was perhaps best known for having inspired the 1980 film Raging Bull.
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