Decatur County GaArchives News.....Young Stribling Light Heavyweight Champion of the South May 12 1966
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"W. L. "Young" Stribling was the greatest boxer Georgia ever produced.  He was 
born in Bainbridge.  So was his father, Pa Stribling, who managed the Georgia 
Peach.  The Striblings performed in vaudeville at one time, and Pa, Ma and W. 
L. did a tumbling act on the program.  Young Stribling had hundreds of fights, 
and defeated Mike McTigue at Columbus, Georgia.  The fighter was said to have 
had perfect physical form and coordination.  He went all the way to the world's 
championship in a fight against Max Schmeling at Cleveland in 1931.  He was 
knocked out in the 15th round of the fight.  Stribling met an untimely death in 
a motorcycle accident in Macon in 1933."   

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