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Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jake LaMotta VI

This will also be a long film study instead of just a description of what's going on, so it will be long. The characters are not enough to analyse the whole fight within one post, so I will do the first 6 rounds here and the rest of the fight later today.

Round 1: Ray comes out circling to his left, and Jake comes out changing levels and crouching to get Robinson to throw the jab in order to counter, he is feinting all the while. Robinson manages distance too well for that to work and avoids a Jake charge by circling to his left while going backwards. He manages to land a double jab by timing one of LaMotta's jab feints by treating it as a missed punch, and counters Jake with a right uppercut after Jake throws a right. Notice how he blocks LaMotta's left in the clinch afterwards, shows that he knows how his rival operates. LaMotta's left foot is too close for Robinson's liking, so the latter moves a bit too backwards to his left and misses a right hand that could have landed if he was standing a bit closer. I like the moment where Robinson cleverly gets an overhook on Jake by utilising his body shot, shows how high his Ring IQ is. Speaking of which, notice how Robinson throws his jab at the left side of LaMotta's face while circling, he is doing that so that Jake gets accustomed to that angle in order for him to bend sideways to avoid the jab, so that Ray will be able to throw a left hook at the unsespecting LaMotta, which is exactly what he does (while subtlely rabbit punching him).

Lamotta manages to momentarily stun Robbie in the clinch, and proceeds to take advantage of some overcommited jabs from Robinson. Robinson notices that and then moves his head off line several times when (or before) throwing the jab, though he does get caught. Robinson blocks Jake's jab with a very old school parry where he has his rear hand across his face almost like a half cross guard, and unfortunately falls short of a really well set up left hook that LaMotta would have charged right into. Robinson does a little feint prior to throwing the jab to grasp Jake's intentions, but soon gets hit with a left hook to the head and clinches. Robinson decides to go on the defensive, delibarately having his lead foot outside of Jake's so that the latter won't have anything to hit him with. LaMotta is too much the pressure fighter and comes barging in, even forcing Ray to push him away. Robinson comes back a bit by timing Jake's jabs, and then misses with 3 consecutive left hooks that can put the fear of God into the most hardcore of atheists. LaMotta continues to bore in and hits him to the body a couple of times to take the round. LaMotta 10, Robinson 9

Round 2: Starts off very similarly to the first, with both guys trying to outjab each other. Robinson momentarily plants his feet and lands a lightning fast 1-2 that leaves even Jake feeling a bit concerned. Robinson has an odd way of blocking the jab, where instead of just not having his left hand low, he absolutely refuses to do so and just extends his right arm to do the deed. Jake dips forwards, and Robinson tries to capitalize by throwing a 1-2 that misses, but notice how far Robinson moves his rear foot forward after throwing the right, he manages to cover more distance that way and manages to actually hit Jake with a left hook, which sends Jake off balance and crashing towards the ropes. Curiously, LaMotta continues to dip forward despite that, which probably even left Robinson confused and thus reluctant to do the same thing again, so they're back to trying to outjab each other, with Robinson noticing that LaMotta again bends to his right, which makes him throw a body jab to leave him occupied, before throwing a right hook to the body that is blocked.

The next minute of so is just another jab fest, with Robinson changing targets and levels, and sometimes timing LaMotta, and with LaMotta trying to pull off Robinson's prior trick of setting up a left hook as Robinson bends to his right. Robinson moves his lead foot inside, jabs to the head and body, then throws a double left hook to the head while pivoting. Beautiful stuff. He then takes advantage of his inside position to counter Jake's body shots with uppercuts, and even manages to land a body hook of his own before clinching. Robinson tries experimenting with body jabs as the round ends, throws a left hook that gets blocked by Jake, and gets poked by a left as the round ends. Robinson 10, Lamotta 9

Round 3: Robinson proves he is a killer mascarading as an artist by immediately slugging LaMotta with a right hand the moment he gets set after the bell rings, which also goes to show his understanding of positioning, as he throws it from an outside angle where LaMotta can't hit him with anything other than a left hand. LaMotta bends down as Robinson misses 2 lefts, and gets hit by a chopping right from Ray before clinching. Robinson's not done, as he makes space for several body blows and uppercuts in the clinch. Remember that moment in the 2nd round when Ray tried setting up a right body hooked that got blocked ? Well, Ray jabs at the left side of his face, LaMotta bends to his right, and Robinson whips that body hook, leaving Jake hesitant. They go back to jabbing for a bit, and Jake misses with a leaping left hook.

Soon after, Robinson jabs, LaMotta dips forward, and Robinson his him with a right, double left uppercut combination before missing a left hook and right straight. LaMotta bends again, Robinson hits him with the right body hook, this happens twice in a row. The second time, Robinson misses with 2 swings and then uses his lead arm to move Jake into a right uppercut, left hook, right straight combination. Poor Jake then gets hit with another right to the ribs. They go back to jabbing again, before Robinson manages to catch Jake moving into a left hook. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

Round 4: Both come out jabbing as usual, as Jake leads with a left hook to the body, Robinson takes advantage of his inside position and blasts him with a right uppercut, left uppercut, double left hook combination while pivoting to his left. He catches Jake with a right uppercut again as he is coming in and proceeds with a left hook to the body and head, Jake stumbles backwards and Robinson goes postal with his left handed shots. LaMotta jabs and Robinson capitalizes with his now iconic right body hook. LaMotta's starting to have his hands low even as he is jabbing, and Robinson nukes him with a brutally timed right hand to the face that can make even Heavyweights writhe. Robinson throws a jab, Lamotta jabs back, Robinson slips and hits him with another deadly right to the face.

Jake is overly cautious now, flinching at every move Ray makes and reacting to the feints, which is fortunate because him fighting on the backfoot allows some deadly shots from Ray to just miss. That doesn't last for long and they go back to jabbing, again Robinson slips one and counters with a right to the head. Robinson fails to counter a charge and gets hit with Jake's best shots of the fight. The round ends every similarly to how it started with Robinson's counter uppeercuts on the inside. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

Round 5: Both trying to outposition the other to land their jabs, with Robinson changing levels and LaMotta crouching. Robinson's way of blocking shots with his rear hand while having his lead one dangling low exposes him to a right hand by LaMotta. Like any good fighter, Jake understands positionning, and knows that his crouching stance with his lead foot on the inside of Ray's leaves him in the fire line of a Robinson right, so he can see it from a mile away when it comes. He shows good head movement when slipping Ray's jabs, prior to Robinson making him come into a left hook while pivoting. This happens again later on and then they spend a lot of the round trying to find openings with their jabs. Jake's sudden level change allows him to land a strong right to Robinson's head. LaMotta hits him to the body and switches up for a hook to the head and later catches him with some good jabs. Robinson catches him with a stinging right counter later on, and another one at the end of the round, but it's too late. LaMotta 10, Robinson 9

Round 6: Ray jabs to the body and then pivots on 2 left hooks to the head. Jake catches him with a leaping left hook and proceeds to pound him in the clinch. Ray seems to neglect the head and has his hands to the body, and has this pattern of dipping low to avoid Jake's shots to the head when Jake goes on the offensive, though some shots do inevitably connect. Ray throws a wide left hook that seems to be blocked, and later on shows some lateral movement when near the ropes, and even manages to hit Jake with a sudden right uppercut. Jake lands some shots to the body and the rest of the round is pretty uneventful, aside from some of Ray's non jabbing shots connecting here and there and LaMotta catching him a few times late. Seems like Robinson is delibarately coasting here to save his energy for later. LaMotta 10, Robinson 9.

 

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Very good fight!

Score's sportscasters were biased towards Lanas.

I had Duran ahead 97-93 but it was a close affair.

 

Love the effort with this. I look forward to the second half.

 

Man, I used to work for a website..

They started assigning me to cover television fights (for the page) and so the week of the fight I had to write a pre-fight article, then the fight's article the day of the fight and then a post fight article where I had to explore the fighters' future after the bout etc

Im not going to mention the site's name because the person turned out to be a jerk who harassed both me and my friend from the site, Sunset Thomas. But if you go to Sunset's Wikipedia article, Im sure you can see the site's name there. This man was nuts, and an evil person. (and a democrat! which showed me that evil can come with all ideologies, lol!)

Anyways, my point is...so back in the day,I used to love KO Magazine's "round-by-round" feature in the pre-internet days , specially when i still did not have a VHS. I could relive the best fights of the month by reading about it, punch by punch.

So I decided I was going to do a round-by-round on my article, the day of the fight, and also score the rounds like Loakeim does....it was freaking exhausting man! I grabbed a notebook, watched the fight, wrote everything significant that happened on it on my notebook, giving me severe wrist pain, and then went online to write it all again, but digitally of course

After me and Sunset both decided to quit, i also decided "never again!"

 

I remember those KO Magazine features, thaey were really good. I had a monthly ritual of going to the magazine store and knowing almost to the dy when that month's publications would be on the stands, and pick that up along with Big Book of Boxing, The Ring, a short-lived Boxing Scene, etc.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jake LaMotta VI

rounds 7-9

Round 7: Robinson comes out jabbing and LaMotta tries to bore in, but Ray smartly ducks under a left hand and pushes him back with his lead shoulder. At this point, LaMotta seems to be deliberately dipping forward. Because as Robinson jabs, LaMotta's sway back seems more proactive than reactive. LaMotta attempts to break his own rhythm by throwing two leaping lefts in succession, the first being a hook and the second being more of a straight that catches Robinson off guard, as he was probably expecting another hook. Robinson manages to avoid a left jab and counters with a left hook to the body followed by a left hook to the head, while pivoting as always. His attempt of using his gloves to line up a right hand proves futile as LaMotta is more than likely accustomed to such tactics during their 6 fight rivalry. Later, Jake manages to land a very well placed body shot that hits its target despite Robinson having his arms protecting his abdomen, good moment of accuracy from the Bronx bull. After they clinch, Robinson starts circling again while jabbing, and eventually goes back to his classic set up of the right body hook. Good defensive responsibilty on his part when he ducks under a return jab after throwing his own, too.

LaMotta jabs again while from a crouch, and Robinson interestingly enough makes him miss by utilizing an old school leverage block with his lead hand. Later on, Robinson starts to change levels and to vary the speed of his jabs to break any sense of a readable rhythm and is unfortunate to miss with a right hand that would have likely done some respectable damage. Ray probably got a little too comfortable (probably still deliberately not bringing forth his upper gear) as Jake closes the distance and hits him with some good shots. He does not make the same mistake twice in a row, as he proactively ducks from any potential punches LaMotta fires before stepping back with his rear foot (much more effective than moving your lead foot first) to get to his preffered distance. And indeed, LaMotta missed all the shots he threw. Shades of Archie Moore. He even turns Jake into a left hook afterwards.

Ray makes a frew small steps to his left while jabbing to lign up his right hand, does a quick, small and very subtle feint and lands it flush on LaMotta's head. Robinson attempts a few uppercuts afterwards but LaMotta takes advantage by using those uppercuts to obtain an underhook to tie Robbie. Ray starts circling and throws a jab to the head and body, and then pivots and turns LaMotta into a left hook followed by a right hand. Very crafty of LaMotta to know that a left and right where coming after that, thus avoiding them before utilising underhooks agains. Robinson proactively avoids a return jab by Jake and throws a right uppercut to the head followed by a left hook. LaMotta manages to land a few jabs and body shots as the round ends, but it's not enough. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

Round 8: As is the case for most of the fight, Robinson manages to pivot to his left while throwing the jab, allowing him to utilize his longer reach and faster hands to outjab LaMotta from a superior angle where he can't be hit. That double jab that Robinson constantly lands throughout the contest is a staple of this fight. LaMotta bores in as he changes levels and throws his trademark body blows, but most if not all seem to be partially blocked. But he does manage to land a right soon after. It clearly does some damage as Robinson then proceeds to utilize something akin to a long guard and proactive ducking, which he used to set up a left hook that missed. Robbie jabs and attempts to throw a right hand but stops midway through, realizing that it's not going to land, and thus he pivots away as LaMotta resets.

Robinson seems to have found a way to avoid some of Jakes' shots, as he establishes a pattern where he parries the left jab, ducks underneath for any other potential head shot, and moves his rear foot back and to his left to avoid body blows. Obviously, body blows are much harder to deal with than that, so he does get caught after he tries it again. But it's an effective strategy. Good showcase of reading LaMotta's attack patterns in between the 2 cases of this defensive maneuver, as Robinson blocks and dodges a jab- left hook combination and right hand after Ray jabs.

Ray proactively parries a jab miloseconds before it comes, but manages to get hit with a right hand to the head. Robinson sets up his mid range uppercut while inside LaMotta's lead foot as the latter goes to the body, and then misses with a left hand that Jake knew would come. Robinson ducks a jab and bumps him like in the previous round before pivoting out, and then bumps his shoulder close to LaMotta again to take away the space neccessary for Jake to operate in. Again, Robinson does those small pivots while throwing the left jab that allow him to outjab the shorter LaMotta even if the latter is the one to jab first. LaMotta slips a jab and tries to counter with a hook to the body that Robinson mistook for a hook to the head, but was fast enough to adapt in time to block it and the rest of the body shots Jake threw. By doing the same thing Robinson does and pivoting to the left as he jabs, LaMotta manages to outjab him at times.

Robinson jabs back and forth to find his ideal distance. He finds it when he slips a jab and throws a hook to the body and head. The second hook misses but Ray takes advantage by using his forearm to clinch. It seems Ray really doesn't like to be jabbed back, so he takes his head off line when jabbing, jabs while going backwards and then jabs to the body, level change and all. Jake lands a few shots to the body as Ray leaves the ropes. Ray has an apparent flaw with the way he likes to block jabs, as he extends both hands simultanesouly and is thus open down the middle. Jake capitalizes on that and lands a pretty clean right hand to the head. Ray does come back though as he is in his preferable mid range with his feet inside LaMotta's, so he nails him with several uppercuts which back LaMotta off. Ray goes into long range and attempts to hit Jake with straight shots, but they can be seen from a mile away due to how far the guys are from each other.

Ray finds him with a few stinging jabs while Jake gets some cuffing shots in. Love the defensive responsibilty by Ray again, head off line when jabbing, proactive ducking, circling, taking his head to the side of Jake's body so he can't be hit after missing an uppercut, all that good stuff. Ray tries to find Jake with another uppecut that is too far away to land, but then seems to get him with a 1-1-2 before clinching. Noteworthy is how Robinson circles while in the clinch to put LaMotta in a different position inside the ring before the ref breaks to put himself in a better position. Pretty smart. Ray avoids some jabs and catches him with a strong left hook coming in and with a flurry. Jake gets to him at the end of the round but also gets hit with some grazing shots.

Robinson 10, LaMotta 9.

Round 9: Jake tries to double jab but Ray manages to outjab him in both cases using his superior positioning and reach advantage. Jake bores in and Ray blocks his left hook to the head before ducking for potential incoming punches, then quickly pivots away as he is aware Jake likes to throw bodyshots as he comes in. Ray does a few feints before double jabbing to set up a left hook, followed by a right straight. Savvy of LaMotta to know the right hand would come, avoiding it. Both guys try to find their preferred range, moving away, jabbing defending etc. Robinson tries to shoulder bump him again to create space for a right uppercut which LaMotta correctly deduced would come, followed by a left hook that Jake also saw coming. Ray throws the trademark hook to the body as LaMotta comes in, and then clinches to get away.

Jake changes levels slightly in order to disguise his left hook but Robinson sees it coming and ducks. He then mixes things up with a few added feints here and there as he also proactively defends himself, but has no time to go through with whatever he was planning as Jake catches him with an unexpected right hand. Ray jabs away and times a right hand as Jake is coming in. After a few more instances of jabbing, Robinson fails to catch him coming into a left hook and jabs again to mantain distance. He is more fortunate when he slips a LaMotta jab and lands that hook soon after. LaMotta is always coming in and catches him with one or two body shots. More defensive responsibility as Ray ducks after jabbing to avoid a Jake left hook, prior to catching him with a right uppercut. LaMotta hits Robinson with what seems to be a sort of leaping stiff jab that clearly got Robinson's attention, as the latter rallies back with a 5 or 6 punch combination that was mostly avoided.

Robinson later counters a jab with a right uppercut that seemed to miss, puts his head on the right side of LaMotta's body, and uses the leverage to move him into a snapping left hook. LaMotta takes it up a notch and hurts Robinson near the ropes with a stiff jab, 2 good right body hooks and a left hook to the head. Robinson just wants the round to end as he jabs away, throws a check left hook and a flurry prior to attempting to hit Jake with an uppercut coming in, but Jake hurts him to the body again and forces him to clinch. Robinson tries to make the round his by hitting him with some serious shots afterwards that mostly land, with LaMotta defending himself with a philly shell type of defense. Probably LaMotta's best losing round. I can kinda see an argument for him taking it, but Robinson did more work. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

 

Rounds 10-13

Round 10: Robinson starts of similarly to how he did in round 3, with a strong right cross that comes from an angle as the bell rings. Jake barely avoids it and employs an underhook to clinch. Robinson keeps jabbing while circling to his left to disguise his upcoming left hook that catches LaMotta unawares, though he misses the following right straight as Jake has gotten used to that combination by this point. Robinson dips slightly and leaps forward with another hook that catches Jake by surprise as he ducks again to prevent potential return fire. LaMotta throws a right to the body but Ray counters with a right uppercut, left uppercut, left hook, chopping right, double left hook combination like an angry cat. Even LaMotta seems to pause for a moment before coming right back in. Both of them are trying to find their preferred distance through jabbing again, but Robinson breaks that moment when he finds himself countering a jab near the ropes with a left body blow that gets blocked. Ray recovers by spinning Jake around and turning him into a cuffing right hook to the face.

LaMotta has a very underrated defensive radar, as he avoids multiple single single shots of Robinson as well as an entire 4 punch combination. Ray steps back and jabs, does a very subtle jab feint to make LaMotta duck, and hits him with a left hookercut, proceeded by his right body hook. Jake delibaretly slows down his rhythm to suddenly explode with a left hook, but it misses. Robinson touches the ropes and counters a jab with a right handed low blow and tries to spin Jake away, but is forced to settle with a clinch due to Jake's underhook. Robinson tries to time LaMotta's dipping but just misses with the left hook, but he quickly slips and counters a jab with a 3 punch combination. He times Jake coming in this time with the right body hook, and even manages to time Jake's dip this time as he lifts his head up with a right uppercut. He jabs, pivots and turns Jake into a left hook and tries to jab to the body so that LaMotta's head is lowered so that he can hit him with more uppercuts, but they were a bit rushed and Jake avoided them. Jake tries to counter a Ray jab with a right straight but Ray rolls with it. Jake takes advantage of Ray's extended hands when jabbing to land a left hook, but Ray retaliates with a left uppercut to the body and chin, proceeded by a left hook and right hand before clinching. Robinson swings a right hand that LaMoota thought would probably go to the head, but Robinson shoots it to the body and then turns LaMotta into a left hook. LaMotta comes in and Robinson tries to catch him with an uppercut but falls short. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

Round 11: Robinson comes out just like in the last round, Jake avoids it again and Robinson avoids Jake's counter left hook. Robinson seems to miss LaMotta with an uppercut as he is coming in and recovers by using his lead arm to push him away. Ray is on the ropes, LaMotta seems to ancicipate a straight punch and ducks forward, but Robinson plans ahead and hits him with the uperccut. Jake barges in, Ray misses the uppercut again, moves inside and pushes his away slightly to make room for a left hook-right straight, the latter punch being dodged by LaMotta for the millionth time during this fight whenever Robinson throws this combination. Ray later pivots as Jake comes in and turns him into a weak body shot, and later into a left hook, shortly before LaMotta catches him with a left hook of his own.

LaMotta maneuvers Robinson to the ropes and hits him with 2 grazing body blows before being pushed back. Robinson moves away and dodges LaMotta's lefts with his usual defensive slip-duck-rock away pattern, but gets hit by a strong right straight that sends him stumbling to the corner. LaMotta takes an outside position relative to Robinson, effectively killing any right handed punching opportunities and goes ham on him. Hook to the body and then the head, switching targets and levels, double left hooks, everything. Robinson gets hit quite a bit there but also does a good job slipping, ducking or blocking whatever he can. He catches LaMotta with a left hook and starts rallying back, effectively stopping Jake's onslaught. He jabs and hits LaMotta with a wide right hook to the body that Jake seemed to have thought would be another right to the head. Robinson misses a left uppercut and stops Jake's attempt to clinch with a short uppercut inside, and hits him with right hand to the face for good measure. This is the beggining of the end for Jake LaMotta.

Robinson starts switching targets with the jab and just misses with another right. He seems desparate to finish it as he starts hitting LaMotta's head on the clinch. Soon after having his back on the ropes, Ray slips a jab and counters with a right uppercut, left hook, right straight, double left hook, right straight combination while pivoting and sends LaMotta crashing on the ropes. LaMotta misses a leaping left hook, and Ray uses his inside position again to hit him with a right uppercut that seems to hit near the heart. LaMotta tries to clinch again, but Robinson responds with 3 consecutive uppercuts with both hands and finished the combination with a 3-2. LaMotta pushes in again, Robinson steps back and hits him with another left hook. It's a savage beatdown at this point. Robinson seems to feint and catches LaMotta dipping down with a hookercut, right uppercut, left hook combination, sends him crashing to the ropes again and finishes with a right hand before clinching.

He proceeds to land some painful jabs, drops his hands to invite him in, catches him with a left hook coming in and turns him to the ropes. He misses a right uppercut but recovers by using his right forearm to turn LaMotta's head where he wants to, and in this case, into a triple left hook that despite missing sends him to the ropes again. He his him with another right body hook and turns him, seemingly more tired than LaMotta. They're both on the inside, Ray does a little push to make space for a right uppercut, double left hook combination and then a 1-2 proceeded by an uppercut, a collar tie and another uppercut with his hand behind Jake's neck. The ref breaks him and then Robinson hits on the break right as the round finally ends. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

Round 12: Robinson attempts to slug LaMotta at the beggining of the round again, but the referee stops him, probably out of pity for LaMotta. Robinson throws some long range jabs and alters their speed to bring forth a deadly right straight that hits LaMotta right on the button. He then misses the following left hook and grazes Jake with the right that follows, he jabs to read the distance but still comes just a bit short with the right straight afterwards. Ray tries to catch Jake dipping again with the uppercut but misses, but uses his forearms again to drive Jake into the path of a left hook. He misses the right again but lands the hook that follows, before right punching in the clinch. Seems like Ray has noticed that Jake tends to innacurately predict his right handed swings, so he throws it again to the body, only LaMotta dipped and lifted his left arm to block it. Robinson then says ''screw it'' and grabs his shoulder in order to land that right.

Robinson jabs to the right side of LaMotta's face to get him accustomed to defending that part of it, only to hit him with the right straight afterwards at the left side of his face. Ray feints to make Jake dip in order to get him with that uppercut again, but Jakes seems to see through it and avoids it. Robinson throws a double jab to open up LaMotta and then hooks of the jab at the unsespecting Jake, who then dips only to get hit by a left uppercut prior to clinching. Ray circles to the left as he jabs and cunningly closes the distance for a 1-2 as Jake has no time to react or reset, walking him right to it. Robinson dips and suddenly explodes with a right hook to the head, prior to jabbing him again in order to throw the right hook to the body (a particularly nasty one this time). He misses with the right uppercut that's coming next but uses his forearm again to put LaMotta in line for a left hook, but Jake is still somehow in his senses, sees it coming and ducks away from it.

Robinson takes no prisoners, though. Again he makes Jake bend to throw the right hook, this time twice in a row, and lands the previously missed right uppercut. Later, he again misses the right uppercut but uses his forearm to throw a left hook, which lands on its mark this time around. Robinson takes his distance, throws a left jab, right uppercut, left hook, right straight, double left hook combination that mostly lands, and LaMotta clearly shows that he is in serious pain, off balance and about to fall over. The right uppercut up close lands again, and so does the right body hook, with Robinson even turning him to the punch. LaMotta tries to clinch but Ray steps back and hits him with a left hook to the head, as both then fall to the clinch while incredibly tired.

Ray snaps Jake's head back with a jab, lands the right uppercut, Jake ducks in what seems to be a cross guard and avoids a right hook, comes back again only to be hit by another one and gets hit with a jab prior to eating another 2 right handed shots, a left hook and a right body hook off a colar tie. But he is not done. Another long right straight to the head and right hook to the body, and Jake still has enough of his senses to avoid all kinds of shots. But it's only a matter of time until he gets hit again, this time by a right staight and left hook that come from an outside angle. But wait, there's more ! A right hook to the body followed by a right to the head, back to the right body hook, ending with a leaping left hook that leaves Robinson look like a badass gunman after killing his victim, and Jake like the victim that got shot. Robinson 10, LaMotta 9

 

Round 13: Ray throws the right as the bell rings, misses and fall into a clinch. There, he makes space for a right uppercut (Duran style), catches him with another one, and moves away from the clinch with a double left hook in an impossibly tight space. He ligns him up for another right straight witht the jab. Robinson tries to catch him with long right handed uppercuts twice, but fails, only to catch him with a left uppercut off a jab feint. I beat Jake did not expect that. Another right hook to the body and a grazing uppercut, and they clinch. Robinson goes low to disguise his right hand to the head, throws a jab, and then throws it again. Ray is definitely tired now, throwing some fast but weak jabs and straights. Even the right hook to the body doesn't have the same sting to it, same as the mid range hooks he throws right after. Robinson tries to fight his exhaustion again as he hits him with another strong right hook to the body prior to clinching. He moves very far when the ref breaks them to find his preferred distance and lands a jab, right uppecut, double left hook off the right forearm and right straight combination.

Robinson sends him to the ropes with a few jabs and a missed uppercut, takes advantage of Jake's outstretched arms and hits him with a right cross, left hook, right straight combination. He continues to jab and sets up a right straight that lands on Jake's head, with Robinson so tired that he even looks at the camera (in 1951). Ray lands a quick left hook after missing a right hand, throws a chopping right at the bent over LaMotta, and a straight right as he comes back up again. Then he proceeds to hit him with the most tired looking cuffing shot in Boxing history, prior to hitting him with the most flush and deadly looking right hand he ever threw. He follows it with 2 consecutive left hooks, grabs LaMotta's right arm with his own and hits him with the fight ending uppercuts that made an old school referee stop a fight.

Sugar Ray Robinson wins by TKO

Score throughout the contest:

Round 1: LaMotta 10, Robinson 9. Overall, 10-9 for LaMotta
Round 2: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 19-19 even
Round 3: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 29-28 for Robinson
Round 4: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 39-37 for Robinson
Round 5: LaMotta 10, Robinson 9. Overall, 48-47 for Robinson
Round 6: LaMotta 10. Robinson 9. Overall, 57-57 even
Round 7: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 67-66 for Robinson
Round 8: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 77-75 for Robinson
Round 9: Robinson 10. LaMotta 9. Overall, 87-84 for Robinson
Round 10: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 97-93 for Robinson
Round 11: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 107-102 for Robinson
Round 12: Robinson 10, LaMotta 9. Overall, 117-111 for Robinson
Round 13: Robinson wins by TKO

 

Big Book of Boxing, World Boxing, International Boxing, Boxing Illustrated, Boxing Scene, KO, Ring Magazine, and in the Spanish world, we also had Ring Magazine en Espanol and Guantes.

And of course, I also had Memin, the Menudo 'zine, Vea, Teve Guia, Estrellas, Estrellitas, Teen Beat, Tiger Beat, 16 and whatnot lmao!

 

Bravo, maestro.

This was a masterpiece account of a masterclass performance.

(Wish you could do Sullivan-Kilrain, haha.)

 

I loved Hank Kaplan’s International Boxing Digest. There were usually iirc a few features but mostly just written accounts of fights … some of them huge fights, some of them fairly insignificant, but all treated as important.

 

i heard bout that one but it was subscription only lol and at age 12, 15 dollars is a huge deal haha

 

Nicely written.

 

Hi Antonio.
Talking of the Ring, somewhere around the mid 60s the front cover picture was in colour and depicted the proceedings just before the start of Johnson / Jeffries, both combatants were in the ring devoid of ropes, and standing in opposite sides of the ring, Johnson looking in superb condition, hands on hips, smiling for all the world to see, could have been watching ducks in a park , in stark contrast Jeffries despite displaying a splendid physique , simply huge legs, a magnificent chest covered in a forest of hair, his face gave it away, set in a grim anxious look, forehead heavily lined, jowel and cheeks hollow and sunken, his appearance gave the look of prisoner on his way to the gallows, the crowd, as was the custom of the day were attired in thick looking suits, and the compuserly worn hat, some even had overcoats and ties, funny how nearly all men of the era were suits and hats, no matter how hot, anyway that front picture captioned " The title fight that shook the World " will live with me forever.
stay safe lady, chat soon.

 

A classic cover!!!