An artist has been chosen to create a Philadelphia statue in honor of late hometown boxing great Joe Frazier. Mayor Michael Nutter said in a statement Wednesday that Lawrence Nowlan will create ...

Artist Ernel Martinez is the creator of 'Heart of a Champion' a tribute to Philadelphia boxer Joe Frazier. The mural at 13th Street and Allegheny Avenue was sponsored by Mural Arts Philadelphia. (Emma ...

Joe Frazier was a fixer, and he loved nothing more ... Over time, Slone began to take an interest in art. He’d paint ...

Originally, the artist that was selected for the job was ... Mark Kram, Jr.’s father covered all three of Joe Frazier’s fights with Muhammad Ali for Sports Illustrated. He recently published ...

"Rocky is great, it's a movie. But Joe Frazier's real. And he's Philadelphia." Artist Stephen Layne is finishing up a 9-foot-tall clay version of "Smokin' Joe" that captures Philly's local hero in ...

Joe Frazier took home the win in the fight against ... while a mural honoring Frazier by artist Ernel Martinez is now viewable in North Philadelphia. The AP shared a video of the unveiling of ...

Why is there a statue of the fictional Rocky Balboa near the Philadelphia Museum of Art but not one of non-fictional Smokin’ Joe Frazier anywhere in his adopted hometown? There have been efforts ...

Associated Press Joe Frazier was the shadow in the Muhammad ... They were on different planets. Ali was an artist and, depending on your point of view, idol or Antichrist. Smokin’ Joe was ...

Joe Frazier was,'' he said, referring to the hometown character from the boxing movie, ''Rocky,'' whose statue stands at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ''Tell them Rocky is fictitious ...

Several years ago when I was commuting around Philadelphia — I drove past the iconic gym where the legendary Joe Frazier ...