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

Both Schmeling and Stribling were 6'1'' and Schmeling was only 2 1/2 lbs the heavier man ,look it up.By the way the referee George Blake came from Georgia, so Stribling was given every chance in this fight.

 

What I considered weird was what kind of weight limits did they use in the South to call 133-pounders featherweights. Or 156-pounders - welterweights.

 

The biography 'King of the Canbrakes' is a great read if you can track it down

 

No he didn't. Walker showed very good form in that fight, and held his own until running out of gas. He just didn't have the power all the way up at heavyweight to bother Schmeling.

How on earth was Stribling "smaller"?? They were both longtime light-heavyweights who moved up to cruiserweight.

 

FWIW Max Schmeling was in his prime when he fought Stribling and it was close although Schmeling was the only one to stop him in 287 bouts!

Young Stribling was one of the most popular athletes in America at the time of his death.

 

Yes. I have read these stories also. Apparently Stribling sent a partner ahead to Southern tank towns to win a couple of fixed fights while "playing the Yankee" and really rubbing the Southerners the wrong way. Southern boy Stribling would then show up to give the "Yankee" his comeuppance in what appeared to be a hotly contested fight. Strib was certainly a talented fighter, but much of his record smells at least as much as Carnera's.

 

Some of the "opponents
from Stribling's last year as a boxer,when he had engaged in upwards of 250 fights.
Odell 4-3-0
Neron 9-32-5 x2
Corri 10-44-4 x2
Fay 0-0-0
Gorsline 2-2-0 x2
Packo[Joe] 15-29 -2 x2
Griselle 5-3-0
Fay 14 -16 - 2 x2
Stone 0-1-0 x2
Blackstock 0- 30
Harris0-1-0
Rowe1-0-0
Cook 0-1-0
King [Joe] 0-0-0
Rammell 0-2-0
Gubinella 0-0-0
Quite a few of Striblings "Foes " turn up in Carnera's resume.