Joe Frazier was a fixer, and he loved nothing more than fixing his gym. It was a sturdy, three-story building near Broad and ...

Outside of Joe Frazier’s Gym in North Philadelphia, the sidewalk is littered with an empty bottle of Gordon’s gin, a yellow flash of caution tape and scattered pebbles of broken glass. Inside ...

Outside of Joe Frazier’s Gym in North Philadelphia, the sidewalk is littered with an empty handle of Gordon’s gin, a yellow flash of caution tape and scattered pebbles of broken glass. … ...

Joe Frazier’s Gym, where heavyweight boxing champion Frazier trained to fight Muhammad Ali, has been a staple on North Broad Street for decades. The gym, which opened in the late 1960s, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Joe Frazier was a fixer, and he loved nothing more than fixing his gym. It was a sturdy, three-story building near Broad and Glenwood. When he was not training boxers, the former ...

The gym sign is still visible. The National Trust for Historic Preservation last year placed the gym on its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Frazier died of liver cancer in 2011.

Frazier sometimes slept in a spartan apartment above the gym so he could wake up early and keep working out. “That building meant the world to Joe, and to everybody who knew him,” Hand said ...

PHILADEPHIA – Bernard Hopkins drove south on Broad Street on Tuesday morning, breezing past Joe Frazier’s old boxing gym, which has been turned into a discount furniture store. The gym at ...

The gym on North Broad where boxing legend Smokin’ Joe Frazier trained to fight Muhammad Ali closed in 2008. While Frazier’s name is still visible on the facade, the building’s only use is a furniture ...

Joe Frazier is dying inside a hospice in Philadelphia. He has liver cancer. Soon the Philadelphia left hook that seemed to have a life all its own will have lost every ounce of its thunder. Soon ...

PHILADELPHIA — Joe Frazier was a fixer, and he loved nothing more than fixing his gym. It was a sturdy, three-story building near Broad and Glenwood. When he was not ...