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Frazier statue finds new life 2 years after death

The Columbian
Published: November 6, 2013, 4:00pm

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Frazier’s statue has found new life on the two-year anniversary of the former heavyweight champion’s death.

Frazier’s statue was set to be erected by spring 2014 at an entertainment complex near Philadelphia’s three sports stadiums near the now-demolished Spectrum, an arena where he fought.

Plans to place the Frazier tribute in the same complex that is already home to the statues of Julius Erving and the Broad Street Bullies were sidetracked when the sculptor commissioned by a city panel to create the statue, Lawrence J. Nowlan, died in August.

Philadelphia sculptor Stephen Lane has picked the project off the mat and was selected to create a piece that should be finished by the end of next year.

Frazier died Nov. 7, 2011 after a brief battle with liver cancer at the age of 67.

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