Robert De Niro put on more than 50 pounds to play this boxer
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Stars Who Lose and Gain Weight for Movie Roles | Fox News  Oct 23, 2009 ... With Jim Carrey reportedly gaining 50 pounds to play Curly in the new ... Since Robert De Niro added bulk to play washed-up boxer Jake La Motta in ... One of the first, if not most notable, instances of weight gain for a role, was Robert De ... He gained 60 pounds and then resumed filming as the washed-up,...
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J! Archive - Show #3812, aired 2001-03-13  Robert De Niro put on more than 50 pounds to play this boxer ... On Sept. 20, 1999 this NHL team played its last game at The Forum, winning 8-1...
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Robert De Niro And His Extreme Weight Loss - PK Baseline- How ...  Jul 10, 2016 ... To play Jake La Motta in Raging Bull Robert De Niro famously gained ... film establishes this better than the Martin Scorsese classic Raging Bull. In the film, DeNiro plays Italian-American middleweight boxer Jake ... De Niro's 60 pound weight gain was the most by any actor for a film role, ... 50cent23f-1-web...
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Raging Bull - Wikipedia  Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by ... It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight .... After a stagehand [played by director Martin Scorsese in a brief cameo] .... boxing scenes took longer than expected, putting Scorsese under pressure.
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12 Actors Who Made Unhealthy Transformations for a Film - Suggest ...  Back in 1980, Robert De Niro won the role of Jake LaMotta, a boxer with weight issues. ... "It's not hard to put on weight in France when you're eating all the good ... Rapper 50 Cent acted in this 2011 film in which he plays a football player who ... The already slim Natalie Portman lost 20 more pounds to play a ballerina...
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Sugar Ray Robinson facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Welterweight world champion, 1946-51; middleweight world champion five .... light-heavyweight limit of 175 pounds, fighting instead at his natural weight of ... Some say Robinson's reputation would be even greater than it is today if he .... greatest heavyweight of all time, but Ray Robinson was the greatest fighter of all time.
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Art Aragon Dies at 80; Was One of the Ring's Golden Boys - The ...  Mar 28, 2008 ... Long before the boxer Oscar De La Hoya became known as the Golden Boy, Aragon got his nickname from sportswriters in a reference to the 1939 movie of that name starring William Holden as a violinist turned boxer. ... The Golden Boy was a perfect title for him, Van Doren told The Los Angeles Times...
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What Does Robert De Niro Have To Say About The Vietnam War ...  Jan 24, 2015 ... Now one may be beginning to wonder where Robert De Niro comes into .... De Palma begins to hint at Rubin's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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BOXING - Foreman Flattens Moorer With Blast From the Past ...  ... to 45-year-old George Foreman the heavyweight title he had lost 20 years ... Published: November 6, 1994 ... 5 A right hand thrown from about 1973 tonight returned to ... At 250 pounds, he was 28 pounds heavier than the southpaw Moorer, who was 19 years younger. ... His record fell to 35-1, including 30 knockouts.
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Honoring the greatest boxing upsets of all time - ESPN.com  Feb 11, 2010 ... And in the first round, he was dominant, seemingly cruising to ... he outweighed his challenger by 25 pounds and he advanced out of his ... The heavyweight championship had changed hands for the first ... as the bell rang to end the fight, winning a unanimous decision. ... Leon Spinks W15 Muhammad Ali
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Raging Bull (1980) - Greatest Films  The 1940s boxing champion/bum blindly, obtusely, and stupidly inflicts wounds ... stylized boxing scenes ever filmed - with sweat and blood spraying out of the ring, ... The domestic fighting and other battles in La Motta's personal life compose the ... According to the voice-over of the fight announcer, middle-weight boxer La...
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10 Things You Didn't Know About 'Raging Bull' | Decider | Where To ...  Dec 19, 2015 ... RAGING BULL, Jake LaMotta (L), Robert DeNiro, portraying him (R. The movie was based on the real Jake LaMotta's memoir, Raging ... RAGING BULL, director Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, 1980, .... Robert De Niro accidentally broke one of Joe Pesci's rib. ... It was during a sparring scene, and yes.
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Top 6 Greatest Unbeaten Boxers of All Times - TOTAL SPORTEK  Sep 15, 2015 ... Floyd Mayweather  49-0, 26 KO's (1996-). Floyd money Mayweather, started his professional career in 1996 and ... Rocky Marciano  49-0, 43 KOs  (1947-1955) ... his career with a 49-0 record and fought some of the greatest boxers in ... He won WBO World super middleweight title by defeated British...
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When Mike Nichols Fired Robert De Niro: Excerpt from 'De Niro: A ...  Dec 28, 2014 ... Marsha Mason, Simon's actress wife, was playing the actor's wife, ... De Niro had arrived on the Hollywood set of Bogart only three days ... that it could take an actor a bit of time to get into the rhythm of a role, ... off the production when Nichols and Mason tried to tell him that he didn't know what comedy was.
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Actors Who Took Extreme Measures in Hopes of Winning the Oscar  Feb 23, 2016 ... Dating back to 1980 when Robert De Niro bulked up 60 pounds to ... for five weeks before filming that movie, says Swank, who strapped her ... and losing a bunch of body fat so that my face would be thinner." ... The actor, who has made a career out of physically prepping for ... Charlize Theron, 'Monster'...
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Boxing Weight Classes - Free Sports Picks  Welterweight. Maximum Weight: 147 lbs. Greatest Ever: Sugar Ray Robinson. Welterweight has always been a very important weight class in the sport.
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Floyd Mayweather and the weight issue: How much is too much to ...  May 13, 2013 ... Floyd is not a true 154-pound fighter ... We know he's not the same fighter at that weight. ... and won titles at 147 and 160, with more dubious titles at 168 and 175, both with ... These were fights more or less in another weight class called super middleweight ... So Floyd's topped out at 154 and is aware of it.
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Robert De Niro and Tony Bennett look dapper at benefit screening ...  Feb 25, 2014 ... Robert De Niro, 70, enjoyed the company of his wife and singing legend Tony ... in New York City of the actor's 1993 directorial debut A Bronx Tale. ... The 70-year-old Oscar-winning actor looked dapper in a black ... a special screening of the 1993 film A Bronx Tale directed by De Niro .... Playing host?
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Welterweight - Wikipedia  Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat ... [hide]. 1 Boxing. 1.1 Professional boxing ... A welterweight boxer's weight is greater than 63.5 kg (140 lb), but less than 66.7 kg (147 lb). .... Muay Thai has fixed its weight division similarly to boxing.
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Weight problem: Robert De Niro will be 50 on 17 August. He is one of  Jul 31, 1993 ... He is one of the great screen actors of the age, established forever by Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The Deer ... Yet the obsession in his life is a short movie which he paid for himself, which he carries around with ... 'You talking to me? You talking to me? .... Five questions you should ask in job interviews...
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A LONG TIME TO GET YOUNG: fuckyeahbehindthescenes: Robert ...  fuckyeahbehindthescenes:  Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib in a sparring scene. This shot appears in the film: De Niro hits Pesci in the side,...