Look-A-Likes Throw Gloves into Ring for Year's Supply of Hoagies

Nearly thirty Rocky Balboa look-alikes put their best gloves forward at the Wawa Welcome America Rocky Look-Alike contest on Wednesday, June 30. The contest took place at the famous Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rocky contenders were requested to provide vocal and physical impressions of the boxer and run up the art museum steps “Italian Stallion” style.

As the sun set on the museum, the winner of the match, pictured in red next to Rocky movie actor James Binns, celebrated his win of a year’s supply of Wawa hoagies. Afterwards, hundreds of attendees gathered on the art museum stairs and enjoyed an outdoor “Philly @ the Movies” screening of Rocky as a positive ending to the month of June.

-Photographer: Lisa Simon. Writer: Amanda Rittenhouse.