This is interesting because there is something distinctly off about putting the statue of the real life of Joe Frazier at the bottom of the Philadelphia museum steps, while moving the statue of the fictional Rocky at the top.

But I think you have to bear in mind that the entire connection with those steps and boxing comes 100% from the movie Rocky.

So it makes sense that the statue at the top is of Rocky.

It's just a poor judgement to put a real life black boxing underneath a fictional one.

You could have Joe Frazier at the top, however. It would reference to both Rocky and real life boxing, and that could be quite clever.

But yeah, I get that Rocky should be at the top.

As a side note, one of my favourite parts of the movie is when Apollo Creed yells 'Joe Frazier!'

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