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 
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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 