Quote Originally Posted by Larryboy View Post
For their first fight, LaMotta was 157 pounds and Robinson 145. Lamotta was a middleweight, even if he had at one point scraped into that division, he acheived all his fame and success at middleweight.
He used saunas in order to shed every ounce of water from his body and he competed for manynearlty fights at 147.

I was unaware of that weight diference, ty for the information.