- Eugène Criqui
Infobox Boxer
name=Eugène Criqui
realname=Eugène Criqui
nickname=
weight=Featherweight
nationality= flagicon|FRA French
birth_date=August 15 ,1893
birth_place=Belleville ,France
death_date=death date and age|1977|7|7|1893|8|15|mf=y
death_place=Villepinte ,France
style=Orthodox
total=130
wins=99
KO=53
losses=17
draws=14
no contests=0|Eugène Criqui (
August 15 ,1893 –July 7 ,1977 ) was a French boxer who held the worldfeatherweight title in 1923.Criqui was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French
flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he served in the French military inWorld War I . While doing guard duty atVerdun , his jaw was shattered by a sniper's bullet. A surgeon reconstructed the jaw using wire, silver, and a goat leg. [Citation
last = Stradley
first = Don
title = Marcel Thil & Eugène Criqui: Two Forgotten Frenchmen Immortalized at Last
journal = The Ring
volume = 84, no. 5
page = 74-75
date = June 2005]After the war he resumed boxing. He won the French featherweight title in 1921 and the next year won the
European Boxing Union featherweight championship. OnJune 2 ,1923 , he beatJohnny Kilbane by a sixth-round knockout inNew York City to win the world featherweight title. Part of the contract for this fight required that he giveJohnny Dundee a shot at the title within sixty days. When he fought Dundee fifty-four days later (onJuly 26 ,1923 ), Dundee knocked him down four times and beat him by a fifteen-round decision. In his next fight, Criqui injured his hand and did not fight many more fights before he retired in 1928. [Citation
last = Stradley
first = Don
journal = The Ring
page = 75
date = June 2005]He died blind in a nursing home in 1977. [Citation
last = Stradley
first = Don
journal = The Ring
page = 75
date = June 2005] He was inducted into theInternational Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005, making him the second inductee from France afterMarcel Cerdan .References
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* [http://www.ibhof.com/criqui.html International Boxing Hall of Fame Biography]
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