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Battling Siki: A Tale Of Ring Fixes, Race, And Murder In The 1920S
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Battling Siki (18871925) Was Once One Of The Four Or Five Most Recognizable Black Men In The World, And Was Written About In Detail By Such Figures As Ring Lardner And His Son John, Damon Runyon, And Westbrook Pegler. One Can Find His Legacy In The Name Of A Popular Rock Group, One Of Che Guevaras Lieutenants, A Character On Xena, Warrior Princess, And The Battling Siki Hotel In The Fighters Homeland, Senegal. Peter Bensons Biography Of The First African To Win A World Championshipin Boxing Delves Into The Complex World Of Sports, Race, Colonialism, And The Cult Of Personality In The Early Twentieth Century. Born Amadu Fall, Siki Was Taken From Senegal To France By An Actress And Assumed The Name Louis Mbarick Fall. After An Inauspicious Beginning As A Boxer, He Served In World War I With Distinction Then Returned To Boxing And Compiled A Most Impressive Record (Fortythree Wins In Fortysix Bouts). Then, On September 24, 1922, At Pariss Buffalo Velodrome, Before Forty Thousand Stunned Spectators (Including A Young Ernest Hemingway, Who Wrote About The Fight), Battling Siki, Employing His Trademark Windmill Punch, Fought And Defeated The Reigning World And European Light Heavyweight Champion, Georges Carpentier. The Colorful Siki Spent A Fortune Partying And Carousing, Was Arrested For Firing A Pistol In The Air, And Was Frequently Seen On The Streets Of Paris, Dressed In Flashy Clothes, Walking His Pet Lion Cubs On A Leash. But He Also Provoked A Scandal By Exposing The Corruption Of The Fight Game In France, Spoke Out Boldly Against Racisim, And Was Arrected For Deliberately Defying The Code Of Racial Segregation In The American South. Sikis Flamboyant Image Was Largely Created By Newsmen. In Fact, The Real Siki, While He Did Certainly Like To Party, Was Also An Intelligent And Socially Conscious Person, Who Detested The Medias Image Of Him As A Simpleminded Drunken Savage. Offers Rushed In For Him To Fight In The United States, Maybe Even Against Jack Dempsey. But In A Move Many Have Called One Of The Strangest A Fighter Ever Made, He Fought Irishman Mike Mctigue In Dublin On St. Patricks Dayand Lost. After Losing His European Title He Came To The United States And Fought Without Much Success. He Continued To Drink And Get Into Street Brawls. On The Evening Of December 15, 1925, At The Age Of Twentyeight, He Was Shot And Killed In Hells Kitchen In What Some Claimed Was A Gangland Execution. Peter Bensons Biography Beautifully Captures Battling Sikis Amazing Boxing Career And Sheds New Light On The Scandal Surrounding His Marriages And Public Behavior, His Alleged Participation In Ring Fixes, And The Mystery Surrounding His Death.
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