http://www.yardbarker.com/boxing/players/billy_fox/73658 Recent articles about Billy Fox en-us On November 14, 1947, 65 years ago today, middleweight great Jake LaMotta faced Billy Fox at Madison Square Garden... and threw the fight. To his credit, LaMotta had long refused to cooperate with the mob, which held a tight grip on boxing in the '40s and '50s.  As LaMotta eventually believed, however, if he didn't agree to both pay up and take a dive, he'd never get a shot at the middleweight title.  Or so he thought. I hold LaMotta in the highest regard, but he should have followed the example of recently deceased Carmen Basilio.  He became both welterweight and middleweight champ, and did so without kowtowing to the mob. Fox was very much the property of gangster Frank "Blinky" Palermo, as demonstrated by his improbable ring record. Fox had his pro debut in 1943, and over the next four years, he won each and every fight -- 36 in a row, all by either KO or TKO.  One can only wonder about the legitimacy of those wins -- ow many of them were &... Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:45:56 -0500 http://network.yardbarker.com/boxing/article_external/jake_lamottas_infamous_fixed_fight_against_billy_fox_65_years_ago_today/12208795 http://network.yardbarker.com/boxing/article_external/jake_lamottas_infamous_fixed_fight_against_billy_fox_65_years_ago_today/12208795 Jake LaMotta’s infamous fixed fight against Billy Fox 65 years ago today http://www.yardbarker.com/boxing/articles/jake_lamottas_infamous_fixed_fight_against_billy_fox_65_years_ago_today/12208795 http://www.yardbarker.com/images/yb_logo_square_grey.png