Turki Alalshikh may have just put together the best boxing card ever.
Rocky Balboa fans are ready to go the distance — by bus, by ice skates, by 72 steps — to honor Philly’s favorite fictional fighter almost 50 years after the first movie launched the enduring series of an underdog boxer persevering despite the odds. Yo, Adrian, Philly finally did it! The city Rocky called home at last has a week dedicated to the box office heavyweight champion of the world a year after the inaugural Rocky Day was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps.
In the end, Jaron "Boots" Ennis vs. Vergil Ortiz Jr. was too good to be true.
Even for many of the world's greatest fighting champions, the scars of the schoolyard are never far away.
