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Lamotta's Nose"[Jake Lamotta's] nose is remarkable. It looks like a mine shaft that hsa collapsed or a sausage that has been cut up and clumsily reassembled by a child, and when he breathes through it, it sounds like a death rattle. It is the kind of nose you get from more than 120 professional fights and never hitting the canvas once. Even when, under intolerable pressure from the mob, he threw a fight against Billy Fox in November 1947, he refused to go down. 'Only my wives knocked me down,' he says now."
[Trivia: Lamotta was the inspiration for the Robert De Niro film Raging Bull (1980).]
Lamotta, Jake ["Raging Bull"] (1922- ) American boxer
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