Return To Your Corner
Documentary Feature | Duration: 1:02:11 | Documentary BLOCK #5 | 10/5 | 3:20 PM
Perth, WA, Australia Carver Community Cultural Ctr.
Directed by: Ashley Malcolm Morrison
Description: Who was the first Boxing World Champion from Africa? Why do so few people know his name?
Sadly few know his name even in Africa because Battling Siki was a world Champion during the colonial era and so his world title is recorded as belonging to his colonial ruler.
Siki faced severe racism during his career, but used the very thing used against him to promote himself and his fights. He also stood up to racism at a time when few did.
Ultimately he paid the ultimate price for refusing to throw a fight and was shot in a New York Street aged 28. He was buried in New York, but in 1993 his remains were returned to Senegal.
Is it time his world title was too!?
Perth, WA, Australia Carver Community Cultural Ctr.
Directed by: Ashley Malcolm Morrison
Description: Who was the first Boxing World Champion from Africa? Why do so few people know his name?
Sadly few know his name even in Africa because Battling Siki was a world Champion during the colonial era and so his world title is recorded as belonging to his colonial ruler.
Siki faced severe racism during his career, but used the very thing used against him to promote himself and his fights. He also stood up to racism at a time when few did.
Ultimately he paid the ultimate price for refusing to throw a fight and was shot in a New York Street aged 28. He was buried in New York, but in 1993 his remains were returned to Senegal.
Is it time his world title was too!?
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Filmmaker Bio:
Ashley Malcolm Morrison
English-raised, Australian-based Ashley Morrison is a sports commentator, author and documentary film maker. All three of his previous films have picked up awards around the world.
His focus is close to home in terms of his films relate to sporting figures, but in each there is an underlying message. These are not simply films focusing on an individual. They are films looking at people who were far greater than their sporting achievements, true leaders in a world that has sadly often forgotten them. |
