Burt Reynolds and Jake LaMotta 1971

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
  • Burt Reynolds guest hosts this 1971 edition of "The Tonight Show" and welcomes a variety of veteran boxers, including "Bronx Bull" Jake LaMotta

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  • @sergeantwarden471
    @sergeantwarden471 3 роки тому +15

    Those old time fighters always came off as gentlemen. Even in todays screwed up society, fighters usually come off as respectful and gentlemanly. I respect them more than any other athletes.

  • @LS-ki9ft
    @LS-ki9ft 5 років тому +32

    "I don't want to be a character actor". That's hilarious. The world is a less funny place without Burt Reynolds. God bless and may he rest in peace.

  • @chukesobialo5706
    @chukesobialo5706 5 років тому +18

    Love the pride in the way those old school fighters carried themselves..

  • @gregoryeastwood9068
    @gregoryeastwood9068 3 роки тому +5

    All of those middle aged boxers in the audience wore suit and ties. Awesome.

    • @mayuquitomayu4743
      @mayuquitomayu4743 2 роки тому

      I think your observation could be extended- nowadays no one wears a suit unless they are dead, getting married, interviewing for a job or selling something you cannot afford.

  • @johnyerkov1553
    @johnyerkov1553 5 років тому +20

    So many talented boxers in one place Willie Pep had the most wins of any boxer ever

    • @oreokookie1000
      @oreokookie1000 4 роки тому +1

      I met willie in hartford ct. in the mid '70's. My grandpa knew him, he shook my hand and said" hey kid"...it was like a vice, hurt like hell!

    • @oreokookie1000
      @oreokookie1000 4 роки тому

      @@geewhizz1970 very funny...no I'm not a powder puff, you friggin' idiot....just a guy who who gave his life to Christ in 1983, after seeing all kinds of shit in the 60's and 70's....why don't you come to new haven here, and we will settle it...funny how you guys talk a good game under the cloak of the internet! hahahahahaha...phony!!!

    • @Jay-bo7bo
      @Jay-bo7bo 3 роки тому

      No, Len Warwick has the most wins of all time with 342

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 14 років тому +41

    My Godfather Steve Belloise was a great fighter of the 1940's. He was consistently ranked as the leading MIddleweight. contender. He missed his chance at the title because right after Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy. After the war LaMotta got the title shot and Uncle Steve lost the elimination bout to Sugar Ray Robinson who then went on to beat LaMotta. Uncle Steve remained in the Naval Reserve and trained many sailors at Ft. Schuyler Naval Station in the Bronx. He was a wonderful man.

    • @DGA2000
      @DGA2000 4 роки тому +2

      Your Godfather was a great fighter. He stepped into the ring with lots of greats and held his own beating guys like Ceferino Garcia and Tommy Bell

    • @wineitfoods
      @wineitfoods 4 роки тому +3

      John Barone WOW John, you Godfather was once heck of a middle weight. He fought some of the best guys.

    • @adampowell5481
      @adampowell5481 2 роки тому +1

      Interesting story mate

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 2 роки тому

      @@wineitfoods Thank you.

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 2 роки тому +1

      @@DGA2000 Thank you.

  • @MrFirstdance2000
    @MrFirstdance2000 11 років тому +27

    Burt was an awesome host. Fun, witty, and the greatest laugh!

  • @stevephlyer
    @stevephlyer 3 роки тому +6

    Burt Reynolds, the best guest-host ever of The Tonight Show. And this is almost 10 years before Martin Scorsese made The Ranging Bull movie about Jake La Motta. Jake wrote in the book that he presented to Burt, that he thinks he would be the only person he would trust to play him, wow! Robert De Niro did a wonderful job playin La Motta, no doubt, but I think Burt could've made a fantastic boxer as well.

    • @davidarango4679
      @davidarango4679 Рік тому +2

      Bert wouldn't have been able to mimic a true Bronx accent. De Diro was not only Italian, but a Bronx native himself. His accent was natural, perfect choice to play La Motta

  • @tonyzanowic7442
    @tonyzanowic7442 3 роки тому +6

    10 great, tough old time fighters!

  • @samcole9262
    @samcole9262 11 років тому +12

    Your Godfather fought in an era with some of the toughest
    men ever to walk this earth..
    look how many amateur and pro fights they had before
    even getting a shot.
    and there were just 8 belts and weight classes

  • @FranzSanchez-ky9up
    @FranzSanchez-ky9up Рік тому +1

    Burt was brickin' it. I can't blame him.

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 13 років тому +10

    hilarious. mcmahon set reynolds up pretty good.
    it's amazing someone could take the punishment jake did and still be alert and alive at 90 years old.

  • @vincentfisher1603
    @vincentfisher1603 Рік тому +1

    No way boxers would be treated this way on any tv show now.

  • @Danimal77
    @Danimal77 4 роки тому +6

    He reminds me of the Paulie character from Rocky.

  • @kc1973able
    @kc1973able 3 роки тому +3

    If you watch a few of the Hagler fights you will see Burt in the crowd.

  • @necoslayerofdragons7champi882
    @necoslayerofdragons7champi882 4 роки тому +3

    Should have added Pedro montanez to that roster. He fought Henry Armstrong and Louis Ambers,and had close to 200 pro fights

  • @chukesobialo5706
    @chukesobialo5706 5 років тому +2

    I love Burt Reynolds

  • @billlozier5551
    @billlozier5551 4 роки тому +3

    Was this in New York? What year? Burt is tremendous here. Had he not become a legendary movie star he could have become a legendary host. He had so much charisma and charm and could be so funny.

  • @jurjyzaidan5540
    @jurjyzaidan5540 2 роки тому +1

    A few comments were made here about why there are no Black fighters on the show ... These fighters were gathered for the Sports Illustrated-sponsored exhibition "rematches" that were fundraisers for the United Cerebral Palsy Fund. The ones who participated in the fundraiser were those who volunteered. And the ones who appeared on this episode of the Tonight Show were not the only ones who were invited, but the ones who agreed to appear on the show...And Chico Vejar (the one who is dressed stylishly hip and not wearing a formal suit) is Latino. The rest just happened to be either Italian or Irish. As for Burt Reynolds, Ed McMahon really put him on the spot like he had never been before (or since) by thoroughly deflating Burt's Hollywood "tough guy" image and ego when confronting REAL tough guys ... Some of them true boxing legends: Willie 'Will-o-the-wisp' Pep; Francis 'Chico' Vejar; Steve 'Ginks' Belloise; Joey Giardello-The Bad Boy of Boxing; Carmen Basilio; The Raging Bronx Bull Jake LaMotta, etc. In probably his entire public life, Burt Reynolds NEVER looked so nervous, uneasy, and embarrassed as he did in this talk show appearance. Jake LaMotta good-humoredly "destroyed" Burt Reynolds in this talk show episode. Being a top ENTERTAINER, Reynolds' wit managed to get him through. What really matters here is not why there are no Black boxers present at this talk show, but that the fighters who are present display and evoke a certain dignity, class, and elegance which they also did before and after their professional bouts in the ring (during weigh-ins and press conferences)...And NOTHING like so many of the gutter level, foul-mouthed, shameless, show-boating degenerates that have disgraced the sport of boxing in the past 40+ years (i.e., from about 1980 onward).

  • @IMRUSTYJAMES
    @IMRUSTYJAMES 13 років тому +2

    love this thanx

  • @SRNF
    @SRNF 7 років тому +8

    Ive never seen Burt Reynolds so scared in my life.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  11 років тому +3

    I do have nearly the full episode of the broadcast, and in fact if you look elsewhere on my channel you'll see Burt interviewing Charo from later in the same show. The broadcast date is concrete. I know some have argued Jake looks older here but it's tough to contrast personal perceptions against concrete proof. You're absolutely right that admitting to error on YT is a very scarce occasion, so you deserve kudos for having the good manners to do so.

  • @marco27c1
    @marco27c1 6 років тому +4

    September 13, 1971, Burt's second shot as guest host.

    • @coldwinter5710
      @coldwinter5710 4 роки тому

      Burt was the 1st "actor" Johnny asked to host the show. Up to that point, only comedians got the nod. That is saying a whole lot about how highly Johnny felt about Burt.

  • @tangobango9653
    @tangobango9653 6 років тому +15

    Sounds like a lineup of Mafioso’s!

    • @mirazusta2002
      @mirazusta2002 5 років тому +2

      Agree, quite something, and they look real tough guys.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  13 років тому +3

    @JEROME021000 Sorry but the broadcast date is September 13, 1971. Burt Reynolds guest hosted, and his guests were Alex Karras, Charo, and The Amazing Kreskin; the boxers were only part of a brief segment. When this episode was shot "The Tonight Show" was still based in New York, and moved to California in May 1972. There are episode guides for the series online where you can easily confirm the broadcast date.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  14 років тому +1

    Unfortunately I do not post entire programs, clips only. The boxing segment was just this brief bit - they were not on the entire show.

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 11 років тому +1

    Thank you for remembering.

  • @seanoxborough5830
    @seanoxborough5830 Рік тому

    Filmed and recorded from mars😊

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  14 років тому +1

    The recording was sent by a friend, and it is a full show; unfortunately I do not have the Jan.21 episode.

  • @spikevalhalla88
    @spikevalhalla88 11 років тому +6

    No way this can be 1971. Look up "The Way it Was" with JL and Curt Gowdy. The show ran from 74-78 and Jake looks much younger than on the Tonight Show.

    • @Revolver1981
      @Revolver1981 4 роки тому +2

      Aye old Jake was a mad boozer for quite a time man.🍻

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 4 роки тому +1

      It is 71. This is NY, the show moved to California in 72

    • @coldwinter5710
      @coldwinter5710 4 роки тому

      @@joeambrose3260 Correct!

  • @clarencewright9841
    @clarencewright9841 2 роки тому

    The great black fighters who was kicking all those guys asses

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 13 років тому +1

    @Chris2O09 Thank you. Enjoy the holidays

  • @rawandy666
    @rawandy666 6 років тому +3

    Rip

  • @paulgerardhosty9909
    @paulgerardhosty9909 3 роки тому

    Hi, what happened to the sound?? Has got to be about the worst I've heard. Did Jake punch out the mike?

  • @Mrsilenciobackgammon
    @Mrsilenciobackgammon 11 років тому +1

    This is great, thanks.

  • @mikeh.8155
    @mikeh.8155 8 років тому +4

    where's part 2??

  • @scottjo63
    @scottjo63 11 років тому +3

    If I could remember, Burt did great job guest hosting on the Tonight Show, A lot better then Jay Lenno not and David Letterman not he did it for a entire week one time. When his movie career died down he should had done his own show, I think he would had stayed on top a little better then Chevy Chase, Arsenio Hall. Arsenio had Eddie Murphy behind him why he made it, but it didn't last as long as it should. Especially with Whoopi Goodberg promoting him in the movie Ghost.

    • @coldwinter5710
      @coldwinter5710 4 роки тому

      @Just think Correct! Burt won a Golden Globe & an Emmy for his TV show Evening Shade. I do wish, as I'm sure he did too!, that he made better career choices overall. He should have made more quiet, dramatic roles. The dramatic roles he did do, I always felt were some of his very best & most overlooked. He was an extremely talented, multifaceted actor & he sold that talent short far too often.

  • @chops5070
    @chops5070 2 роки тому

    its hilarious how there are more than a hundred comments and almost no one notices🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😂😂

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  13 років тому +1

    @JEROME021000 The broadcast date of the episode is September 13, 1971.

    • @jareddicarlo7816
      @jareddicarlo7816 5 років тому

      Only a few months before Johnny left for Burbank.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  11 років тому +2

    LaMotta guested on "The Tonight Show" twice - the first was Sept. 13, 1971 (which this clip is from) and a few months later on January 21, 1972. The show was shot in New York at that time before relocating to California in May 1972.

  • @leslievaughn1047
    @leslievaughn1047 6 років тому +2

    Chico and da men..

  • @JEROME021000
    @JEROME021000 13 років тому +2

    it's not in 1981?

  • @VIPrice
    @VIPrice 14 років тому +1

    sweet as could you put the rest of it up? cheers

  • @1060michaelg
    @1060michaelg 11 років тому

    I wouldn't want to wish anyone to lose their house.

  • @scottjo63
    @scottjo63 11 років тому +1

    Well, Burt Reynolds before Martin Scorsese, who knew. This is a treat to watch Burt vs Jake Lamotta whoaaa Burt would had lost if Jake was mad at his wife again.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  11 років тому +2

    Sorry but the broadcast date is September 13, 1971. Burt Reynolds guest hosted, and his guests were Alex Karras, Charo, and The Amazing Kreskin; the boxers were only part of a brief segment. When this episode was shot "The Tonight Show" was still based in New York, and moved to California in May 1972. There are episode guides for the series online where you can easily confirm the broadcast date. LaMotta was only on "The Tonight Show" twice - Sept.13 1971 and Jan.21 1972.

  • @spikevalhalla88
    @spikevalhalla88 11 років тому +1

    Okay, I saw the video of Alex Karras and Charo and looked up the guide, so I guess you are right. The only explanation? Maybe he dyed his hair a few years later? Or the color in the video is off? I still say he looks younger on "The Way It Was " episode

  • @daveyboy_
    @daveyboy_ 2 роки тому

    Where was tranmitted from . One small step for man came in clearer

  • @sebasssebas6865
    @sebasssebas6865 5 років тому +3

    burt died last year lamotta year before

  • @rickrick5041
    @rickrick5041 5 років тому

    What happened with the fight?

  • @ElMattador89
    @ElMattador89 13 років тому +3

    lol the only guy i'd trust to play me...glad burt reynolds didnt star in raging bull'

  • @hammeringhank5271
    @hammeringhank5271 8 років тому +3

    Lamotta was a middleweight not a heavyweight

    • @JenniferM13
      @JenniferM13 8 років тому +1

      I think he meant a heavyweight at the time of filming.. Jake was a little heavy here.

    • @oncall21
      @oncall21 7 років тому +2

      Jake fought as a middleweight and then later as a light heavy weight before retiring.

    • @coldwinter5710
      @coldwinter5710 4 роки тому

      @@JenniferM13 Agreed

  • @rickrick5041
    @rickrick5041 6 років тому

    So where is the fight between them?

  • @railcar123
    @railcar123 10 років тому +4

    Willy Pep is the ref in "Raging Bull".

    • @maxkol4380
      @maxkol4380 5 років тому

      Wow! Great piece of trivia! Thanks

    • @indiglo1971
      @indiglo1971 4 роки тому

      Former WWF referee Jack Lotz was also in Raging Bull.

    • @schmittyhanrahan8126
      @schmittyhanrahan8126 3 роки тому

      See interview of Willy Pep conducted by Angelo Dundee on YT

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 15 років тому

    This was the last New York set of "The Tonight Show," inaugurated fall 1971; its last ever use was when Johnny Carson did three weeks' worth of shows that aired from Nov. 13 to Dec. 1, 1972, more than six months after the program "permanently" moved to Burbank.

  • @23iamthegreatest
    @23iamthegreatest 14 років тому +1

    @robatsea2009 Good stuff man

  • @VIPrice
    @VIPrice 14 років тому

    man thats classic. where did you get ahold of this footage? cheers for putting it up. do you happen to have the rest of this show? or the jan 21st episode when jake is back on?

  • @patbackus7668
    @patbackus7668 5 років тому +1

    Dem days are over lol

  • @blueduck5589
    @blueduck5589 3 роки тому +1

    Not a black man amongst them. No surprise; this was 1971.

    • @jamesmonteverde5538
      @jamesmonteverde5538 2 роки тому

      Oh poor boy -- Coley Wallace was doing a movie at the time. No big deal. All these got together for a charitable cause, and I'm sure Joe Frazier would have been there if he was in town.

  • @Carlson-oy2ir
    @Carlson-oy2ir 7 років тому +2

    Most were Italians and a few Irish. No More!

    • @indiglo1971
      @indiglo1971 4 роки тому

      Carmen Basilio?

    • @gp7910
      @gp7910 3 роки тому

      Oh yeah...Basilio was definately Irish.

  • @Chris2O09
    @Chris2O09 13 років тому +1

    @trajan75 Nice story :)

  • @clarencewright9841
    @clarencewright9841 3 роки тому +1

    what about the great black fighters

  • @Realtarquinn
    @Realtarquinn 11 років тому +2

    I also dont believe that its from 1971 because LaMotta was born 1922 - so look at him: he looks much older than 49. And that Burt Reynolds is 45 old at this show (instead of 35) is more probable for me than LaMotta could be 49.

    • @coldwinter5710
      @coldwinter5710 4 роки тому

      It was indeed 1971 as this show was in New York. The show moved to L.A. in 1972. Burt always looked older than he was in his prime, his regularly sunkissed wrinkly forehead & mustache helped with that.

    • @heinzbecker9056
      @heinzbecker9056 3 роки тому

      Ok thx, wow my post was 7 years ago :-(. Im 44y old now but I would say I look like his grandson compared to LaMotta if he really was only 49 back then.

    • @jamesmonteverde5538
      @jamesmonteverde5538 2 роки тому

      He looks older because he was obese at the time.

  • @JEROME021000
    @JEROME021000 13 років тому +2

    in 1981 correction

  • @kelvinkloud
    @kelvinkloud 3 роки тому

    willie f'in pep.... it gets no bigger in boxing.

  • @spikevalhalla88
    @spikevalhalla88 11 років тому

    Yes, I see that in the episode guide that BR was the guest host, but it does not list Jake Lamotta as a guest. I'm sure BR guest hosted more than once. I'm not saying that you are incorrect, I'm saying that in the "The Way It Was Episode", he looks years younger, so I'm just not convinced yet.. Did you look it up the show with Curt Gowdy as host?

  • @reddwing4368
    @reddwing4368 3 роки тому +1

    No black boxers?¿?

    • @jamesmonteverde5538
      @jamesmonteverde5538 2 роки тому

      Yeah, wonder why Frazier and Ali weren't there . . Oh my bad, they were booked at a later time.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009  11 років тому

    Figures in the public eye will often go to measures (hair dye, face lifts, etc) to make themselves look younger, so that's entirely possible. If you look up Jake's listing on the IMDB you'll find the episode listing there. There used to be a comprehensive "Tonight Show" episode guide online where you could search by guests, year, etc but it doesn't seem to be around anymore.

  • @davee930
    @davee930 14 років тому +1

    Haha Jake doesn't clap once

  • @rjplamf61
    @rjplamf61 12 років тому

    @combatesdeboxeo it had to be 1971 because the Raging Bull came out in 1980 and also because when Jake hands Burt the book he wrote in it (i'm paraphrasing) the only actor I would want to play me.

  • @JEROME021000
    @JEROME021000 13 років тому

    its in end 70s debut 80s
    1981 sure
    watch the video " the way it was" in right
    lamotta est plus jeune
    thank you

  • @lee1990lee
    @lee1990lee 14 років тому

    wilie pep be4 jake

  • @spikevalhalla88
    @spikevalhalla88 11 років тому

    Okay....Definitive proof that I am wrong(which NOBODY admits to on YT)
    A photo of La Motta and DeNiro together during the filming of Raging Bull! He looks much older.
    I see that you have been defending this point for a few years now. I think that this is your best proof(Without the full Tonight Show episode,of course)

  • @GCL777
    @GCL777 6 років тому +1

    Burt was scared that he was going to get his toupee knocked off.
    Actor Robert Conrad was on the Merv Griffin show with Smokin Joe Frazier once and was offered a sparing match. Robert Conrad jumped to the occasion. Conrad was a ligament boxer. Conrad got his jaw jacked.
    Robert Conrad in later years was challenged to a boxing match on TV by Tony Danza , a former boxer, and Conrad took him up on the offer and knocked out Danza in the match.
    Conrad challenged Gabriel Kaplan to a foot race on TV and lost.
    Conrad was once challenged to an arm wrestling contest from a arm wrestling woman's champion and lost twice.
    Say what one may, at least Conrad had the guts to take the challenges, win lose or draw.
    And once Muhammad Ali had Clint Eastwood do the speed bag on a TV show. Eastwood impressed Muhammad All with his talents on the speed bag.
    People like Conrad and Eastwood were the general articular. Burt was good as an actor. He did good stunts in his movies when he was involved in them. But Burt was obsessed with his hair piece not flying off. So his tough guy status was very limited.

    • @austntexan
      @austntexan 6 років тому +5

      Dude, Robert Conrad had the worst Napoleon Complex in Hollywood. He jumped through hoops like a little trained chihuahua, he had to. He didn't command any of the roles Burt could get. Burt had nothing to prove during this era, with his best years still ahead of him. Robert Conrad is a footnote in Hollywood, whereas Burt owned that town for well over a decade. I'm not really sure what you mean by touch guy status either? Are you saying Burt wouldn't have fist fights with other actors or didn't participate in foot-races? So this makes​ him less manly? What other foot races have tough men participated in? Your litmus test for manliness is pretty funny.

    • @jimmysapien9961
      @jimmysapien9961 6 років тому

      Oh please

    • @jamesmonteverde5538
      @jamesmonteverde5538 2 роки тому

      Conrad had such an EGO that they filmed an episode of Mannix about a star with an egotistical complex that was hated by the whole supporting cast. The actor who played the fool? Non other than Robert Conrad.

    • @GCL777
      @GCL777 2 роки тому

      @@austntexan Not at all....I am a fan of Burt...He was one of the greats.....I am saying he didn't take chances on losing his toupee. Such as Sparing on TV with a boxer. Where as RC actually jumped loved to spar with boxers. By the by RC and Burt were very good friends.

    • @GCL777
      @GCL777 2 роки тому

      @@jamesmonteverde5538 Yup, RC admitted that he had a huge ego.

  • @fmsullivan1978
    @fmsullivan1978 11 років тому

    Did someone beat Carmine Basilio handsome?

  • @DaBearsManiac
    @DaBearsManiac 12 років тому

    lol Lamotta never clapped

  • @oldschoolmuscle4436
    @oldschoolmuscle4436 5 років тому

    Burt was afraid to get his wig knocked off.

  • @maximusmaxwell4392
    @maximusmaxwell4392 9 років тому +4

    cant see a single black person surprised the racist card is not being played great fighters wonder how many are still alive beside lamotta

    • @andrewjacks2716
      @andrewjacks2716 6 років тому

      >Fascist
      >Leftards
      Pick one.

    • @rickrick5041
      @rickrick5041 5 років тому

      Sugar Ray Robinson was surely invited but probably had other things to do

    • @chops5070
      @chops5070 2 роки тому

      You are right. Nothing racial about this. Like Rick Rick suggested, Sugar Ray Robinson and some of the other unworthy black fighters such as Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson, Henry Armstrong, etc, had other things to do🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @jamesmonteverde5538
      @jamesmonteverde5538 2 роки тому

      No, actually in 1971 people knew their place and went to work. No time for nonsense - and Ali and Frazier were the Champs..

  • @pe6obutilkata
    @pe6obutilkata 13 років тому

    Jake fuckin owned him :)

  • @joaquinromero3318
    @joaquinromero3318 8 років тому

    What's up, yo? It's really attractive. morning zip !!