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I remember LaMotta saying he wished he had had a chance to fight Muhammad Ali. If Ali would have tried to pull the “rope-a-dope” on him, he said, he would have pounded Ali’s forearms until he broke them.

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May he rest in peace. For someone that engaged in such a rough profession, 95 is a pretty good run.

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I remember LaMotta saying he wished he had had a chance to fight Muhammad Ali. If Ali would have tried to pull the “rope-a-dope” on him, he said, he would have pounded Ali’s forearms until he broke them.

I admired Jake LaMotta's fighting skills but that is just dumb. If heavyweight bombers like George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, and others couldn't pull that off, a relatively light-hitting (a career KO percentage of 28%) Jake LaMotta wasn't going to.