He fought other neighbourhood boys in matches that adults bet on and ended up at a juvenile facility for attempting to rob a jewellery store. "Then I realised I didn't have to use an ice pick any more. "And when I went after them with an ice pick, they ran away," he said. After being beaten up at school once, LaMotta told Reuters his abusive father gave him an ice pick to use on his attackers. LaMotta was a raging bull of a hoodlum as a child. While LaMotta's strength and volatility made him one of the top fighters of the 1940s and 1950s, by his own admission, his paranoid, jealous and self-destructive nature led to a life of turmoil. He was never knocked out and in 2002, the authoritative Ring Magazine ranked him 52nd on its list of the 80 best fighters of the previous 80 years. Fighting mostly as a middleweight and known as the Raging Bull and Bronx Bull, LaMotta finished his 13-year career with 83 victories (30 by knockout), 19 losses and four draws.
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