Joey LaMotta

Joey LaMotta is the deuteragonist of the 1980 psychological sports film Raging Bull. He was based on the real-life person of the same name. 
He was portrayed by Joe Pesci who also portrayed Leo Getz in the Lethal Weapon franchise.
==Biography==
He is the younger brother of Jake LaMotta who trained him in boxing between 1941 and 1951. He is shown to be well-intentioned and also tried to keep Jake grounded for his own sake and deals with his abuse. He was seen talking to his friend, Salvy Batts and discusses a potential shot with him for the middleweight title and comes across Jake fighting with his wife over her overcooking his steak. While they talk, Jake orders Joey to hit him, but he refuses, but eventually relents and wraps his hand with a towel and hits Jake repeatedly by Jake's orders, but stops when he sees Jake's cuts from his previous boxing match. 
When Jake notices a young girl named Vickie, he becomes smitten with her and divorces his original wife to pursue a relationship with her. Joey introduces his brother to Vickie and they begin a relationship and eventually get married and Joey is seen at their wedding and spending time with their children.
Later, Jake starts becoming more angry, such as lashing out at Joey for making him put on 168 pounds when he's still fighting in the boxing tournament and becomes more abusive towards his wife Vickie. Jake also tells Joey to keep an eye on Vickie as he feared that she would cheat on him with other men. One night at the Copacabana when Joey is discussing Jake's victory with journalists, he sees Vickie with Salvy and speaks with her that she's giving up on his brother. When Salvy tries to explain that he wasn't trying to hit on her, Joey gets mad and beats up Salvy, and outside and was forced to apologize for it by Tommy Como and is told by him that Jake would have to take a dive if he wanted a shot at the championship title.
Later one day, Jake asked Joey about what happened at the Copacabana, and he says he beat Salvy for talking to Vickie and asks him if he had sex with Vickie and Joey chooses not to answer and leaves, but not before telling him "he's cracking up". When Jake finds out Vickie had sex with Joey and the whole neighborhood, he gets enraged and walks to Joey's home and beats him up in front of his whole family and knocks out Vickie before leaving, leaving Joey battered. This eventually makes their relationship strained as they have stopped speaking to each other. He later gets a call from Jake and assumes it Salvy and curses him out on the telephone. Joey later sees Jake in the boxing fight on TV as he loses to Sugar Ray Robinson and thus his career goes downhill and he eventually moves to Miami with his family.
Later, in the end when Jake (who was divorced by Vickie) returns to New York City, he meets Joey and they reconcile their relationship, but Joey is elusive.
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