Associated Press File Photo. This June 16, 1949, file photo, shows Jake LaMotta, right, fighting Marcel Cerdan in Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Mich. LaMotta knocked out Cerdan in the tenth round to become the new world middleweight champion. LaMotta, whose life was depicted in the film “Raging Bull,” died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia. He was 95.