There is no other sport that lends itself to dramatic, real-life storytelling like boxing. You have two protagonists and with ...

Returning to professional sports after retirement is a monumental task, particularly in boxing, where age, reflexes, and ...

McShane is the artist behind some of the city’s best-known murals, painting his sports heroes with the same passion he had as ...

The building at 2917 N. Broad St. is where the late boxing great Joe Frazier trained from 1968 until his retirement in 1975, then trained other boxers for years.

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Frazier spent his retirement training potential boxers in Philadelphia. Here, he owned and managed Joe Frazier’s Gym, where he trained the next generation to take over.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary for the fight of the century and his win over Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier was memorialized with a bronze statue in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia on Monday ...

His statue was unveiled at a new gym owned by Joe Hand Promotions, whose founder formed a group called Cloverlay and helped bankroll Frazier early in his career. Hand and his family, who long had ...

March 9 (UPI) -- A north Philadelphia gym celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali when it unveiled a 7-foot-high, lifelike statue depiction ...

What to Know Joe Frazier was celebrated in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia on the 50th anniversary of his win over Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century. Frazier had a 9-foot-tall, 1,600 ...