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| | JS Online: Jake LaMotta Helps With Boxing Union |
 | | The one-time ``raging bull,'' mellowed by age and sporting a fl cowboy hat, was among the retired ring figures present on Tuesday as F.I.S.T., an organization that seeks to help ex-boxers find their way in the ``real world,'' became affiliated with an AFL-CIO union. |
 | | LaMotta, famed as the ``Bronx Bull'' who fought six epic bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson in the 1940s and won the middleweight crown with a TKO of Marcel Cerdan in 1949, showed his sense of humor remained intact 49 years after retirement. |
 | | LaMotta also parodied a punch-drunk boxer repeatedly telling his manager, ``I want to fight Gerry Cooney, I want to fight Gerry Cooney,'' until the exasperated manager finally says, ``Look, if I told you once, I told you a thousand times. |
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