Louis Mbarick Fall, known as Battling Siki, was a Senegalese light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 to 1925, and briefly reigned as the World light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier.
Battling Siki
Siki photographed in March 1923 with Eugène Stuber at the Claremont Hotel, Howth, Dublin
Commemorative plaque in Saint-Louis
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot.
A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908 to 1926. A French professional champion on several occasions, he became the European heavyweight champion before the First World War. A sergeant aviator during the Great War, he was wounded before returning to civilian life. He then discovered rugby union, playing as a winger.
Georges Carpentier
Dempsey and Carpentier in the arena before the fight
In June 1921, cartoonist Tad Dorgan drew what he expected would occur in the Carpentier-Dempsey fight.