"Bold" Mike McTigue (November 26, 1892 – August 12, 1966) was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1923 to 1925.

[2] He traveled as a steerage passenger of the British steamer Baltic, which arrived at the Port of New York on 21 September 1912.

Despite the Irish Civil War still ongoing, the fight was held in La Scala Opera House in Prince's Street, Dublin against the Senegalese Fighter Battling Siki.

McTigue fought multiple bouts in his career against the likes of Paul Berlenbach, Jeff Smith, Harry Greb, Mickey Walker and Tommy Loughran.

In 1927, he produced his greatest performance on American soil when he knocked out the great Berlenbach in the fourth round.

[citation needed] He succumbed to poverty and ill health and was confined to various hospitals around New York for the last ten years of his life.