On Valentine’s Day, The Ring looks back on the sixth, and most brutal, encounter between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta for the middleweight championship.

The name the bout is given, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, harkens to 1929 during the Prohibition era, when seven people were murdered with Thompson machine guns and a shotgun at a garage in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Twenty-two years later, Robinson-LaMotta staged an epic battle at Chicago Stadium as our Patrick Connor revisits here. It was stopped in the 13th of a scheduled 15 rounds. It was the kind of beating that takes years off a fighter’s life, but LaMotta — I was in awe of meeting him at Madison Square Garden at the middleweight tournament in 2001 after multiple phone conversations with him as a regular contributor to The Ring at the time — lasted 16 more years before leaving us at 95.

I’m not sure which was more remarkable: That he never hit the canvas in that bout with Robinson or how lucid he was after taking so many flush head shots in 896 rounds inside the ring (106 fights). And plenty more outside it.

Today, there’s a commemorative brick struck by bullets, the wall against which the murders took place and bullet fragments on display at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement in downtown Las Vegas.

All we have is the old black-and-white footage on film from 75 years ago — and a boxing archive like none other in the world to relive a first-person account at RingMagazine.com that puts you there in Chicago.

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