When the city unveiled a statue of the late heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in 2015, it was an honor befitting the legend, ...

Some claimed the plan was flawed because it still elevated a fictional character.

Philly’s real heavyweight champion, an inspiration for Sylvester Stallone’s fictional boxer, will move to a spot near the foot of the Art Museum steps, after Rocky moves to the top.

The Joe Frazier statue will move from South Philadelphia to the base of the Art Museum steps in the spring after The ...

Philadelphia plans on bringing the Joe Frazier statue to the Museum of Art, but the move has sparked controversy.

I thought the absolute nonsense around the Rocky statue being permanently exalted to the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art couldn’t be any more embarrassing for Philly. Then, the ...

The blank space that our famed Rocky statue is slated to soon leave at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s steps could be filled by a monument to someone a whole lot less fictional — and it’s ...

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Joe Bugner, a boxer who went the distance with Joe Frazier once and Muhammad Ali twice — once for the heavyweight title — and later became an actor and pro wrestler, died Monday in Brisbane, Australia ...

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Joe Bugner, a heavyweight who took boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance in fights in the 1970s, has died. He was 75. The death of the Hungary-born Bugner, who ...