Battling Siki


	The story of the simple soul corrupted and destroyed by civilization has been told in many ways ad nauseam. In prizefighting it is the story of Louis Phal, a stocky Senegalese tribesman who joined the French Army in World War I, wiped out a German machine gun nest single-handed, became light heavyweight champion of the world and died of bullet wounds in a Manhattan gutter, after surviving a stabbing earlier in the same year.
	John D. McCallum The Encyclopedia Of World Boxing Champions