Jake La Morta

[Gerontophile]

Jake La Motta has died aged 95.

If there are any Doug Stanhope fans out there, this will bring a tear to the eye for several reasons.

[Satchmo Distel]

95 for a boxer is like 120 in non-boxer years. He outlived Sugar Ray Robinson by 28 years. But was he mentally lucid all the way to the end?

[Gerontophile]

AFAIK he was still doing stuff on stage, but didn't really have a clue about anything for the last few years.

Stanhope tells a story of being visited by Jake and his much younger missus, who was knocking on herself. Hilarious and sad.

[Flynnie]

95 for a boxer is like 120 in non-boxer years. He outlived Sugar Ray Robinson by 28 years. But was he mentally lucid all the way to the end?

I mean, as lucid as Jake LaMotta ever was.