How Would of Jake Lamotta done at Heavyweight?

[Joey Giardello]

Lamotta was a huge middleweight, who started his career as a amateur at lightheavyweight winning the diamond belt, lamotta said he would of always liked to fight for the heavyweight title! how does jake do against the heavyweights of his era?

[Holtol]

I have seen some of his fights he never struck me as being that big of middle weight. Personally I think a middle weight can move up and do well at heavy. But its much harder for a light weight to move up and do well at middle. Do to the talent pool around middle weight. Most guys when they train hard end up somewhere around middle weight. I think weight classes mostly just create more boxing matches equaling more money. I think if there was only one weight class there would be some smaller fighters in history that would have been competitive against heavy's like Jake Lamotta.

[Wild Blue Yonda]

LaMotta was too willing to engage to have made serious noise at Heavyweight, IMO. Even if he proved me wrong, the championship would unquestionably have been beyond him. Louis would have absolutely punched him through the canvas.

[Joey Giardello]

I have seen some of his fights he never struck me as being that big of middle weight. Personally I think a middle weight can move up and do well at heavy. But its much harder for a light weight to move up and do well at middle. Do to the talent pool around middle weight. Most guys when they train hard end up somewhere around middle weight. I think weight classes mostly just create more boxing matches equaling more money. I think if there was only one weight class there would be some smaller fighters in history that would have been competitive against heavy's like Jake Lamotta.

Harry greb, sam langford, stanley ketchel, barbados joe walcot, charley burley and holman williams were all round the same size as lamotta and all had success at heavyweight, so i dont see why lamotta cant with his work rate cast iron chin and under rated defense have some success

[Scott9945]

Without having beaten any major lightheavies, I can't make a case for Lamotta competing well against the big guys. He was a compactly built fighter without much height or punching power.

[Miburo]

He would've been killed. Louis-LaMotta especially would be laughable.

[Wild Blue Yonda]

Louis punched some really jaw-hardened Heavyweights into delirium. The first combination he landed would've taken the fight out of LaMotta. The next two or three would've removed him from consciousness.

[NChristo]

LaMotta was too willing to engage to have made serious noise at Heavyweight, IMO. Even if he proved me wrong, the championship would unquestionably have been beyond him. Louis would have absolutely punched him through the canvas.

He would've been killed. Louis-LaMotta especially would be laughable.

I read somewhere that he wanted to actually fight Louis, his brother spoke him out of it though.

Here's a picture of them together.

[Kid McCoy]

Lamotta was a huge middleweight, who started his career as a amateur at lightheavyweight winning the diamond belt, lamotta said he would of always liked to fight for the heavyweight title! how does jake do against the heavyweights of his era?

Probably not very well. Jake didn't have a good style for fighting much larger men, much like Bob Foster didn't.

[mrboxer]

lamotta would of gotten clobbered