![]() ![]() “If Jake was in Detroit fighting, the boys in the Outfit (the mob) laid out the red carpet for him, we’re talking huge spreads for every meal,” Gutz remembered. A driver and bodyguard for Detroit mob captain Salvatore (Little Sammy) Finazzo in the 1950s and 60s before going on to train and manage a pair of world-champion pugilists in the 1980s and 90s, Gutz (originally “Gutzi,” pronounced GOOT-SEE) died earlier this month at age 86. ![]() The Raging Bull himself, Jake LaMotta, was wined and dined by the Motown mafia whenever he was town to fight in Detroit during his storied boxing career, recalled recently-deceased boxing manager and mob associate Billy Gutz in an interview conducted in the latter years of his life.
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