Buy Rocky

[Chris Hutchinson]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5341705984&rd=1

 

wow - i wish i had a million dollars

[Ginge]

Free postage and packing....BARGAIN!!!

[Chris Hutchinson]

only in america could they have a statue of a FICTIONAL boxer outside a sporting history museum though

[Ginge]

There was a famous boxer called Rocky something. I think that is his statue but I'm not 100% about that.

[Chris Hutchinson]

QUOTE (Ginge @ Nov 30 2004, 22:23)

There was a famous boxer called Rocky something. I think that is his statue but I'm not 100% about that.

nope, its based on stallones film character, rocky balboa

[Ginge]

What about Rocky Marciano. Are you sure it wasnt built for him?

 

[Chris Hutchinson]

QUOTE (Ginge @ Dec 2 2004, 15:30)

Are you sure it wasnt built for him?

yep cos he wasnt from philly

[Chris Hutchinson]

also, auction has this in text...

 

 

Created for the movie ROCKY III

the statue was erected on the top steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

After the filming ended a furious debate arose in Philadelphia between the Art Museum and the City's Art Commission over the meaning of "art." Claiming the statue was not "art" but rather a "movie prop" the city considered various alternate locations and settled upon the front of the Spectrum sports complex in South Philadelphia.