Two former giants of the boxing world came face-to-face on Wednesday as Lennox Lewis took to Instagram to share a picture posing with Jake LaMotta . LaMotta , a former world middleweight champion in the 1940s and 50s , posed with Lewis , who later shared the picture on the social media site . Lewis , himself a former world champion in the heavyweight division , was holding what appeared to be one of 93-year-old LaMotta 's belts from his boxing days . Lennox Lewis poses with former world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta . Lennox Lewis ( left ) lands a left jab to Evander Holyfield during their World Heavyweight Championship fight . 'Me and Jake `` The Raging Bull '' LaMotta # Legend , ' Lewis wrote on Instagram . The Raging Bull was LaMotta 's boxing nickname and Robert de Niro later played the Italian New Yorker in a 1980 movie of the same name . On the same day Lewis , once famous for his dreadlocks , revealed to his followers that he had visited a barbers in New York for a trim . Jake La Motta ( left ) and Marcel Cerdan exchange blows in the ninth round of their World title fight in 1949 . Robert de Niro ( above ) played LaMotta in the 1980 moving Raging Bull . Lewis shared a picture of him visiting a barbers in New York on the same day .
Lennox Lewis posed with Jake LaMotta , 93 , and shared it on Instagram . LaMotta was a world middleweight champion in the 1940s and 1950s . LaMotta known as The Raging Bull , had a movie made about him in 1980s .