Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in The 1920s by Peter Benson

Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in The 1920s


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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in The 1920s Peter Benson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press


Battling Siki (1887-1925) 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 Guevara's lieutenants, a character on Xena, Warrior Princess, and the Battling Siki Hotel in the fighter's homeland, Senegal. Peter Benson's 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 Baye Phal, Siki was taken from Senegal to France by an actress and assumed the name Louis M'barick

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