Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta, nicknamed Raging Bull (New York, July 10, 1922 – Aventura, September 19, 2017), was an American boxer of Italian origin, world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951. LaMotta won the world title middleweight on June 16, 1949 in Detroit, against Marcel Cerdan, considered by many experts to be the best boxer in the history of French boxing. On February 14, 1951, in Chicago, a match that has now entered the history of boxing and beyond was held, the one between the Bronx Bull and Sugar Ray Robinson, the reigning welterweight world champion. At stake was the world middleweight title, held by Jake LaMotta. The match went down in boxing history as "the Valentine's Day Massacre". Robinson's tactic was to control LaMotta for the first ten rounds, keeping him at a distance and limiting the damage, responding blow for blow. He then went on the counterattack, landing a series of wild combinations of strikes on his opponent in the next three rounds. An exhausted LaMotta, although an excellent taker, was unable to resist the violence of the blows he suffered and was no longer able to defend himself, causing the referee Frank Sikora to interrupt the match. Robinson won by TKO in the thirteenth round with LaMotta, exhausted, abandoned on the ropes. Throughout his career LaMotta collected 83 victories (30 of which were by knockout), 19 defeats and 4 draws. The International Boxing Hall of Fame admitted him among the greatest boxers of all time. His eventful life, which he himself recounted in his autobiography Raging Bull, inspired the film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro.