If you lose, you still win”) and urges Jake to lose weight. After a few moments, Jake condescends to Vickie, asking, “How long I gotta wait?” Meanwhile, Joey continues to assert his view on the Janiro fight, which he views as a win-win situation (“If you win, you win. Jake interrupts Joey to ask Vickie to bring him coffee, in a commanding tone. Are they gonna think you’re not as tough as you are-you’re not the same fighter? Good! They’ll match you with all those guys that were afraid of matching with you before.

He’s a young kid, up and coming, he’ll fight anybody.” Jake rebuffs Joey’s argument and says he’s still worried about his weight, to which Joey replies, “Let’s say you lose because of your weight. Along comes this kid Janiro, he doesn’t know any better. Joey claims the Janiro fight is necessary for Jake’s to earn a chance at a title shot he reasons that “there’s nobody left for you to fight. On top of that, you sign me up for a fight at 155, and if I don’t make 155, I lose $15,000?”). Jake doubt he will able to shed 13 pounds off his 168 pound weight, which will result in him losing some of his fortune (“I don’t know if I’m gonna make it down to 155 I don’t know if I’ll make it down to 160. In the kitchen, he criticizes Joey for arranging a fight with Tony Janiro, an inexperienced boxer. Jake walks around his home in boxers and a muscle tee, looking slightly overweight. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you’re a champ or you’re a contender.PELHAM PARKWAY Bronx, New York 1947. Of the claim that Cerdan had to quit because of a shoulder injury, LaMotta said in 1970: “Something’s bound to happen to you in a tough fight, cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. On June 16, 1949, in Detroit, he became middleweight champion when the Frenchman Marcel Cerdan couldn’t continue after the 10th round. He didn’t get a title shot until 10 fights later. LaMotta was “stopped” by Fox in the fourth round on Nov. “I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did,” LaMotta said in 1970 interview printed in Peter Heller’s 1973 book “In This Corner: 40 World Champions Tell Their Stories.” Senate committee investigating organized crime in 1960. LaMotta threw a fight against Billy Fox, which he admitted in testimony before the Kefauver Committee, a U.S.

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