Word: siki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror...
...later Siki fouled Morelle, middleweight champion of France, in the sixth round of a fight in Paris. When Morelle went down Siki was so ignorant of the ethics of his profession that he began bowing to the crowd under the impression that he had scored a clean knockout. It took the referee some time to convince him that the foul blow had ended the fight-in Morelle's favor...
...Siki, a loser who would take the laurels...
Since being bitten by a lion in a Paris café, Battling Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...
Georges Carpentier: " I announced that after my return fight with Battling Siki on September 16, I shall retire from the ring-win or lose...