🥊 Amadou M’Barick Fall aka Battling Siki….former light heavyweight world champion who knocked out George Carpentier of France.
🥊 Amadou M’Barick Fall aka Battling Siki….former light heavyweight world champion who knocked out George Carpentier of France. Siki was Senegalese born yet explains how he ended up in France….. he said “I used to go to the docks and watch the ships. One day a big ship came in en route to Marseilles and as it was to remain some days the passengers came ashore. Among there was a German woman who called herself Mme Farquenberg, a dancer who had lots of money. She saw me a kid of eight and had me show her the city. She asked me if I wanted to go on the ship and sail to France, see other lands and have a good time. I didn't have time to tell my family goodbye for I feared the dancer would change her mind. In France the dancer got me nice clothes, and daily taught me to read and write. She danced in many European cities and I would go on the stage as her little servant, dressed in red velvet. The dancer went to Germany, but couldn't take me without a passport. She left me in Mars