Rocky Balboa is back on top.
Philadelphia’s art board has voted to return the iconic statue of Sylvester Stallone’s rags-to-riches movie hero back to the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, where it once made film history.
Creative Philadelphia approved a preliminary plan to move the bronze boxer outside the museum, where it made its debut for the 1982 sequel “Rocky III,” part of Stallone’s popular movie franchise about a down and out punch-drunk fighter who gets his lucky break in the ring, the New York Times reported .
The board initially sought to return the 8-foot-6-inch statue — which has had several homes in the City of Brotherly Love since it was created by artist A. Thomas Schomberg in 1980 — to Stallone, the outlet said.
But the panel later reconsidered — and th

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