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They were good friends from childhood. But, what if they put their friendship aside a la Maurice Blocker-Simon Brown and fight. Who wins?

Except for power, LaMotta is better than Graziano in every way. LaMotta pounds out a clear cut decision or late tko.

Heavyweight Charley Norkus breaks up LaMotta and Graziano in Miami Beach, Fla.
Around 1957.
Thought you might like to see this. And yes, they were all very good friends.

Graziano was all about right hand power and his technique other than that was very mediocre. Lamotta had one of the toughest chins of all time, so I just can't see Graziano being able to knock out or even seriously hurt Jake Lamotta. I think Jake Lamotta would rush Graziano to the ropes and beat him up on the inside for the entire fight and stop him around the 10th round or so.

LaMotta pulverises him!

I done this topic before and LaMotta won the fight convingly according to the Boxrec public.

As well he should have, Jake Lamotta is all wrong for Graziano. If they fought 10 times, Lamotta would be 10-0 over him I believe. They were both raw fighters, but Lamotta had a WAY tougher chin and was just an all-around better fighter from what I've seen of both. For Graziano to win, Lamotta would have to just sit around watching TV and drinking beer for a month without even caring about the fight at all. Since I assume you're talking about prime vs prime Lamotta vs Graziano, I don't see any way Graziano wins.

gilgamesh wrote:As well he should have, Jake Lamotta is all wrong for Graziano. If they fought 10 times, Lamotta would be 10-0 over him I believe. They were both raw fighters, but Lamotta had a WAY tougher chin and was just an all-around better fighter from what I've seen of both. For Graziano to win, Lamotta would have to just sit around watching TV and drinking beer for a month without even caring about the fight at all. Since I assume you're talking about prime vs prime Lamotta vs Graziano, I don't see any way Graziano wins.

That was a good one.