On This Day In Boxing History!

1904: Young Stribling Was Born!

Young Stribling

Birth Name: William Lawrence Stribling Jr.

Born: December 26th,1904

Birth Place: Bainbridge, Georgia

Residence: Macon, Georgia

Pro-Debut: January 17th, 1921

Alias: King of the Canebrakes

Division: Heavyweight

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 6′ 1″  

Reach: 74½″ 

Bouts:  253

Rounds: 1677

Ko's: 50.99%

Career: 1921-1933

Died: Age 28, 1933

Record: 224-13-14, 129Ko's

December 26th

1902: Oscar Battling hit the canvas five times in a bout in Hot Springs, SD. That’s not the worst of it. Battling’s opponent, Christy Williams, saw little birdies and ate the canvas 42 times setting a record for knockdowns

1904: Young Stribling was born in Bainbridge, Georgia

1908: Jack Johnson KO14 Tommy Burns Johnson recognized as first black Heavyweight Champ

1912: Sam Langford KO13 Sam McVey

1916: Harry Greb NWS10 Bob Moha

1930: Frankie Genaro D15 Midget Wolgast

Tracy Harris Patterson was born in Grady, Alabama

1965: Louie Lomeli was born in Estipac, Mexico

1971: Muhammad Ali KO7 Jurgen Blin

1980: Donald Curry age 19 debuts aTKO1 Mario Tineo

1986: Bobby Czyz KO1 David Sears

1994: Saensor Ploenchit KO11 Danny Nunez

2010: Koki Kameda W12 Alexander Munoz     

Daiki Kameda SD12 Silvio Olteanu

2012: Aniya Seki W10 Oksana Romanova

2018: Zino Meuli WMD12 Josef Zahradnik    

Maja Milenkovic W10 Crystal Garcia Nova