Born: William Lawrence Stribling, Jr.
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Young Stribling knocked out 125 opponents, setting a record that only Archie Moore topped. Stribling failed to win a championship, but his career was still going strong when he died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 28. Stribling's mother, a vaudeville acrobat, claimed she wanted him to be a boxer from the time he was a baby. "When he was six weeks old, I started rolling him around the bed just as you would a lump of dough. When he was two yaers old, I started him on leg and arm exercises," she later told an interviewer. Stribling's parents put him and his kid brother in their vaudeville act as juvenile boxers. When the family retired from the stage, they settled in Macon, where Stribling got formal boxing instruction at the YMCA.
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