The 12-foot statue of Frazier, also known as "Smokin' Joe," has stood outside Stateside Live in South Philadelphia since 2015 ...

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

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

The 11-foot bronze monument of the real-life heavyweight champ will replace the Rocky statue, which eventually is being ...

Frazier, who moved to Philly at the age of 15 from South Carolina, began boxing at the Police Athletic League. He founded Joe Frazier's Gym on North Broad Street in 1968, where he mentored youth in ...

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.

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

February 16, 1970, Joe Frazier won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Thirty-six years later, he brought that legacy to Memphis.

Joe Frazier’s grandson is a classmate of my 10-year-old daughter’s. And yesterday she came home and wanted to talk about the boy’s sadness. The way he looked, the way he felt, the way he told her to ...

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