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Former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta dies at 95

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Former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta has died at the age of 95.

LaMotta died because of complications from pneumonia and was in a nursing home in Miami, his wife, Denise Baker, told ABC. LaMotta's wife said the family is in the planning stages of his memorial and funeral.

"He was a great man, sensitive and had eyes that danced right up to the end. I love him, God rest his soul," Baker told ABC. "And he never went down!"

Known for his battles with Sugar Ray Robinson and his portrayal by Robert De Niro in the film "Raging Bull," LaMotta held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.