The SEVERED ARM of DAN DONNELLY the late Irish Champion

COLLECTORS of boxing memorabilia will proudly show off signed gloves, discarded gowns and trunks, maybe even blood-spattered towels from distant ring battles. Too gruesome for some, treasured by others.

The most macabre of ring relics? Hard to beat the chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear bitten off and spat out by Mike Tyson in their notorious clash 23 years ago.

A quick-witted, if strong-stomached, ringsider scooped the bloodied object off the canvas and wrapped it in a handkerchief.

The following month, Pete Stevens, a New York commodities broker, became the proud owner of the grisly ‘souvenir’. He bought it for $18,000 from an MGM guard who allegedly swiped it from a chaotic dressing room.

Somehow, it turned up three years ago in a TV commercial, which showed a contrite Tyson handing back the said item, encased in a jar of formaldehyde, to Holyfield, who graciously accepted it with an apology from Iron Mike.

So, it might