Check it out

https://youtu.be/Okj_uNlKa0Q

Remember the mob made him take a fall before offering him a shot at the title fight afterwards...

Wow, I was watching an old interview with him just a few days ago and was happy to see he was still alive when I looked it up afterwards. RIP.

Meant to ask this last week. In the movie the mob guy i think his name was Tommy was based on Frankie Carbo. Did LaMotta as a Bronx boxer have any other mob ties or association? U gotta figure when he retires in what 1953 amd statts opening gin joints and doin that awful comedy that he rubned shoulders withclots of wise guys?

I read his book. Pretty messed up life. If I remember correctly, the wiseguy he associated with was only referred to as "Nick". Could have been a pseudonym, but I don't think it was actually Frankie Carbo. Came across as a just a local wiseguy who was taking orders from Carbo.

Apparently, LaMotta gave a signed deposition saying Bill Daley and Frank "Blinky" Palermo had put up money to bribe him to throw a fight.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9805EEDD103FE63ABC4D52DFB066838B679EDE

2 cents i thought the movie was boring cant even remeber it.

Cathy Moriarity wasn't boring.

Here's a really good (and long) article which claims that "Tommy Como" is based on Carbo.

http://www.boxing.com/raging_bull_a_tragedy_in_three_acts.html

I'm sure his mannerisms are mostly based on guys Scorsese knew growing up. Frankie Carbo was a muscle man, a gunner for Murder Inc. He was also a soldier by status, never a captain or boss, as Tommy Como resembles in the movie. Carbo is believed to be one of the gunners who hit Bugsy Siegel. Another example of that Lucchese-Dragna connection people were talking about on another thread.