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THE last time Michael Conlan attempted to become a featherweight belt-holder, he did so in an opponent’s backyard with the odds against him. It was, despite this, still a fight he very much expected to win, and indeed it was a fight he was winning, but in the end there could be no question that Leigh Wood’s last-round salvo, which ultimately wrecked Conlan’s dream, was in part a result of Wood’s Nottingham faithful roaring him through to the finish line.
Fourteen months on and Conlan tries again, only this time he goes for the IBF featherweight belt in Belfast, his hometown. Perhaps crucially, whereas before he, come to him. That could mean everything. Or, then again, it could mean absolutely nothing.
