Jake LaMotta, who died last month at the age of 95, wasn’t the best middleweight boxer of the late 1940s, though he did hold the world title in that division for two years.

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have offered their own tributes to Jake LaMotta, whose life story they made into the film Raging Bull.

Former world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta, whose life inspired the movie 'Raging Bull', has died at the age of 95