'This is Battling Siki from Senegal, World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion, with his sparring partner, Frenchman Eugene Stuber. Siki was in Dublin to fight Bold Mike McTigue (aka Methuselah) who hailed from Kilnamona, Co. Clare. The two men are pictured outside the Claremont Hotel, Howth, Co. Dublin. The fight was on Saturday, 17 March 1923 (St. Patrick's Day) at La Scala Theatre, Dublin. McTigue won on points. Irish Times reporting on Monday 19 March was a little sniffy about the quality of the boxing: There was an almost total absence of those thrills and exciting incidents one is wont to Stock Photo