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TIL that prior to shooting Raging Bull, Robert De Niro trained under Jake LaMotta (whom he played) and actually won 2 of his 3 middleweight fights that he entered in Brooklyn. LaMotta himself felt that De Niro was a natural and was one of the 20 best middleweight boxers of all time.

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