page_title: Sid Smith (boxer)
section_title: Taking the European and world flyweight titles, April, 1913
hierarchical_section_title: Sid Smith (boxer) / Professional career / Taking the European and world flyweight titles, April, 1913
caption_attribution_description: English: Eugene Criqui [portrait of boxer]&#160;: [press photograph]
context_page_description: Sid Smith was an English professional boxer who competed from 1907 to 1919. He was the first officially recognised BBBofC British flyweight champion, holding the title from 1912 to 1913, and was also recognized by the International Boxing Union as the world flyweight champion in 1913.
context_section_description: In April 1913, he fought in Élysée Montmartre, Paris against reigning champion Frenchman Eugene Criqui for the European flyweight title and the World flyweight title, as recognized by the International Boxing Union.  The bout was billed as the 112 pound (flyweight) championship.  He beat Criqui on points over twenty rounds to take both titles.  The ruling was a unanimous decision.  An exceptional competitor, Criqui would move up a weight division and take the world bantamweight championship as well in 1923.
  On 2 June 1913, he defended his titles against Bill Ladbury at Blackfriars, London. He lost the bout after holding his titles only seven weeks, suffering a technical knockout when the fight was stopped in the eleventh round.
  On 24 October 1913, unable to return to the ring for the sixth round, he lost to Charles Ledoux at the Élysée Montmartre in Paris. 
  He lost his last bout with his talented rival, former British bantamweight champion and future world flyweight champion, Jimmy Wilde on 27 March 1916 at Hoxton Baths, London, in a third-round knockout of a fifteen-round match.  Smith lost two previous meeting with Wilde, a knockout loss in a title bout in December 1914, and an eighth-round technical knockout loss in December 1915.  In their December 1914 bout in Liverpool, Wilde successfully defended his claim to the British 112 pound (flyweight) title.
  He continued fighting until December 1919, when he had his last fight, beating Johnny Marshall in an eleventh-round technical knockout on 26 December 1919, at the Royal Albert Hall.
caption: Eugene Criqui
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