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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@sergeantwarden4713 жыл бұрын
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.
@javierdenardo26072 жыл бұрын
Roman gladiators
@chukesobialo57065 жыл бұрын
Love the pride in the way those old school fighters carried themselves..
@LS-ki9ft5 жыл бұрын
"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.
@gregoryeastwood90683 жыл бұрын
All of those middle aged boxers in the audience wore suit and ties. Awesome.
@mayuquitomayu47432 жыл бұрын
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.
@tonyzanowic74423 жыл бұрын
10 great, tough old time fighters!
@MrFirstdance200011 жыл бұрын
Burt was an awesome host. Fun, witty, and the greatest laugh!
@johnyerkov15535 жыл бұрын
So many talented boxers in one place Willie Pep had the most wins of any boxer ever
@oreokookie10004 жыл бұрын
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!
@oreokookie10004 жыл бұрын
@@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-bo7bo3 жыл бұрын
No, Len Warwick has the most wins of all time with 342
@trajan7514 жыл бұрын
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.
@DGA20004 жыл бұрын
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
@wineitfoods4 жыл бұрын
John Barone WOW John, you Godfather was once heck of a middle weight. He fought some of the best guys.
@adampowell54812 жыл бұрын
Interesting story mate
@trajan752 жыл бұрын
@@wineitfoods Thank you.
@trajan752 жыл бұрын
@@DGA2000 Thank you.
@stevephlyer3 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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
@FranzSanchez-ky9up Жыл бұрын
Burt was brickin' it. I can't blame him.
@samcole926211 жыл бұрын
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
@tomitstube13 жыл бұрын
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.
@Danimal774 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of the Paulie character from Rocky.
@vincentfisher1603 Жыл бұрын
No way boxers would be treated this way on any tv show now.
@chukesobialo57065 жыл бұрын
I love Burt Reynolds
@jurjyzaidan5540 Жыл бұрын
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).
@kc1973able3 жыл бұрын
If you watch a few of the Hagler fights you will see Burt in the crowd.
@kevindean13272 жыл бұрын
Tom Jones too.
@necoslayerofdragons7champi8824 жыл бұрын
Should have added Pedro montanez to that roster. He fought Henry Armstrong and Louis Ambers,and had close to 200 pro fights
@trajan7511 жыл бұрын
Thank you for remembering.
@marco27c16 жыл бұрын
September 13, 1971, Burt's second shot as guest host.
@coldwinter57104 жыл бұрын
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.
@robatsea200911 жыл бұрын
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.
@SRNF7 жыл бұрын
Ive never seen Burt Reynolds so scared in my life.
@billlozier55514 жыл бұрын
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.
@joeambrose32604 жыл бұрын
Yes. NYC. Sep '71
@tangobango96536 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a lineup of Mafioso’s!
@mirazusta20025 жыл бұрын
Agree, quite something, and they look real tough guys.
@IMRUSTYJAMES13 жыл бұрын
love this thanx
@seanoxborough5830 Жыл бұрын
Filmed and recorded from mars😊
@robatsea200914 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I do not post entire programs, clips only. The boxing segment was just this brief bit - they were not on the entire show.
@robatsea200913 жыл бұрын
@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.
@clarencewright98412 жыл бұрын
The great black fighters who was kicking all those guys asses
@spikevalhalla8811 жыл бұрын
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.
@Revolver19814 жыл бұрын
Aye old Jake was a mad boozer for quite a time man.🍻
@joeambrose32604 жыл бұрын
It is 71. This is NY, the show moved to California in 72
@coldwinter57104 жыл бұрын
@@joeambrose3260 Correct!
@rawandy6666 жыл бұрын
Rip
@chops50702 жыл бұрын
its hilarious how there are more than a hundred comments and almost no one notices🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️😂😂
@robatsea200914 жыл бұрын
The recording was sent by a friend, and it is a full show; unfortunately I do not have the Jan.21 episode.
@leslievaughn10476 жыл бұрын
Chico and da men..
@trajan7513 жыл бұрын
@Chris2O09 Thank you. Enjoy the holidays
@scottjo6311 жыл бұрын
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.
@coldwinter57104 жыл бұрын
@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.
@robatsea200911 жыл бұрын
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.
@mikeh.81558 жыл бұрын
where's part 2??
@paulgerardhosty99093 жыл бұрын
Hi, what happened to the sound?? Has got to be about the worst I've heard. Did Jake punch out the mike?
@1060michaelg11 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't want to wish anyone to lose their house.
@robatsea200913 жыл бұрын
@JEROME021000 The broadcast date of the episode is September 13, 1971.
@jareddicarlo78164 жыл бұрын
Only a few months before Johnny left for Burbank.
@scottjo6311 жыл бұрын
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.
@Mrsilenciobackgammon11 жыл бұрын
This is great, thanks.
@VIPrice14 жыл бұрын
sweet as could you put the rest of it up? cheers
@robatsea200911 жыл бұрын
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.
@spikevalhalla8811 жыл бұрын
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
@sebasssebas68655 жыл бұрын
burt died last year lamotta year before
@ElMattador8913 жыл бұрын
lol the only guy i'd trust to play me...glad burt reynolds didnt star in raging bull'
@JEROME02100013 жыл бұрын
it's not in 1981?
@daveyboy_2 жыл бұрын
Where was tranmitted from . One small step for man came in clearer
@wmbrown615 жыл бұрын
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.
@hammeringhank52718 жыл бұрын
Lamotta was a middleweight not a heavyweight
@JenniferM138 жыл бұрын
I think he meant a heavyweight at the time of filming.. Jake was a little heavy here.
@oncall217 жыл бұрын
Jake fought as a middleweight and then later as a light heavy weight before retiring.
@coldwinter57104 жыл бұрын
@@JenniferM13 Agreed
@Realtarquinn11 жыл бұрын
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.
@coldwinter57104 жыл бұрын
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.
@heinzbecker90563 жыл бұрын
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.
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
He looks older because he was obese at the time.
@VIPrice14 жыл бұрын
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?
@railcar12310 жыл бұрын
Willy Pep is the ref in "Raging Bull".
@maxkol43805 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great piece of trivia! Thanks
@indiglo19714 жыл бұрын
Former WWF referee Jack Lotz was also in Raging Bull.
@schmittyhanrahan81263 жыл бұрын
See interview of Willy Pep conducted by Angelo Dundee on YT
@patbackus76685 жыл бұрын
Dem days are over lol
@Carlson-oy2ir7 жыл бұрын
Most were Italians and a few Irish. No More!
@indiglo19714 жыл бұрын
Carmen Basilio?
@gp79103 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah...Basilio was definately Irish.
@rickrick50416 жыл бұрын
So where is the fight between them?
@rickrick50415 жыл бұрын
What happened with the fight?
@23iamthegreatest14 жыл бұрын
@robatsea2009 Good stuff man
@blueduck55892 жыл бұрын
Not a black man amongst them. No surprise; this was 1971.
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
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.
@spikevalhalla8811 жыл бұрын
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?
@clarencewright98413 жыл бұрын
what about the great black fighters
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
what about them?
@JEROME02100013 жыл бұрын
in 1981 correction
@Chris2O0913 жыл бұрын
@trajan75 Nice story :)
@davee93014 жыл бұрын
Haha Jake doesn't clap once
@kelvinkloud3 жыл бұрын
willie f'in pep.... it gets no bigger in boxing.
@JEROME02100013 жыл бұрын
its in end 70s debut 80s 1981 sure watch the video " the way it was" in right lamotta est plus jeune thank you
@spikevalhalla8811 жыл бұрын
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)
@reddwing43683 жыл бұрын
No black boxers?¿?
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
Yeah, wonder why Frazier and Ali weren't there . . Oh my bad, they were booked at a later time.
@robatsea200911 жыл бұрын
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.
@rjplamf6112 жыл бұрын
@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.
@lee1990lee14 жыл бұрын
wilie pep be4 jake
@GCL7776 жыл бұрын
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.
@austntexan6 жыл бұрын
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.
@jimmysapien99616 жыл бұрын
Oh please
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
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.
@GCL7772 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@GCL7772 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmonteverde5538 Yup, RC admitted that he had a huge ego.
@fmsullivan197811 жыл бұрын
Did someone beat Carmine Basilio handsome?
@maximusmaxwell43929 жыл бұрын
cant see a single black person surprised the racist card is not being played great fighters wonder how many are still alive beside lamotta
@andrewjacks27166 жыл бұрын
>Fascist >Leftards Pick one.
@rickrick50415 жыл бұрын
Sugar Ray Robinson was surely invited but probably had other things to do
@chops50702 жыл бұрын
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🤷🏾♂️
@jamesmonteverde55382 жыл бұрын
No, actually in 1971 people knew their place and went to work. No time for nonsense - and Ali and Frazier were the Champs..
@DaBearsManiac12 жыл бұрын
lol Lamotta never clapped
@oldschoolmuscle44365 жыл бұрын
Burt was afraid to get his wig knocked off.
@pe6obutilkata13 жыл бұрын
Jake fuckin owned him :)
@joaquinromero33188 жыл бұрын
What's up, yo? It's really attractive. morning zip !!