Any of you guys put YOUNG STRIBLING in the all-time top 10?

All time top 10?? No way! His record was largely padded (he was carefully guided my his father, who managed him), and he failed badly when he stepped up his competition.

 

What's happening in your avatar?

 

No.

He didn't win any world titles if i recall right.

 

He was only 28 when he died (and a great human story for anyone that has not read up on him) he fought several bouts that ended "strangely" in losses for Stribling and surely won the light heavyweight title before being coruptly stripped (see link below).

All time top ten-no, deserving hall of famer and still underrated to this day-yes.

BTW he beat Tommy Loughran twice, the Max Schmeling bout was Ring's fight of year, he is second all-time in knockouts and in his last fight he beat the great Maxie Rosenbloom.

Again at only 28 a clean living (obsessed with training) family man, there is no telling what more he would have done in no doubt what would have been a long career.

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Fight:64238

 

He's got a few decent wins like Rosenbloom, Carnera, McTigue, Loughran, Levinsky etc, but he's miles away from being top 10 material.

 

Decent?

 

You know what I mean.

Typed it very quickly.

I often use words that are under-stating. I do recognise that they are very good wins.

 

"Almost beat" Schmeling?? Schmeling made him look amateurish for most of the fight, and then brutally KO'd him.

 

And Schemeling did the exact same thing to Walker, who's a certifed great.

Schmeling was death to smaller fighters, great or not.

 

Stribling ,at 6' 1'' was the same height as Schmeling ,and only 2 1/2 lbs lighter.

 

Well, he certainly is an atg and HoF fighter and he also is overlooked very often. Nice to see him getting some praise. How is the book on him? anybody read it?

 

I would say at least 50 of his 128 kos are "dubious" ,to put it kindly.You will notice if you go through his record the regular reappearance of" Joe this "and "Joe that",Stribling kod his chauffeur in most of the tank towns outside the big cities,and also met old victims pretty frequently to pad out his records .While he did have some good wins he rarely kod a top fighter and was involved in several highly dubious results ,including the two dsq' with Carnera ,and the attempt to intimidate the referee Harry Ertle in the Mctigue fight,which Ertle scored for Mctigue,only to have both hands raised by an outside party ,to signal a draw ,which Ertle repudiated from the safety of his hotel room.