Aug. 27, 2026
Raging Bull isn't just one of the greatest films ever made — it's the true story of a fighter who admitted, in his own memoir, that he threw a fight for the mob to buy his title shot. On this episode of Popcorn & Piledrivers, we go deep on Jake LaMotta: the six-fight war with Sugar Ray Robinson, the 1947 Billy Fox fix and his stunning 1960 Senate testimony admitting to it, his 1949 middleweight title win over Marcel Cerdan, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" title loss, and the wild, tragic 53 y