WITH close-cropped hair and staring from under hooded and scarred brows, the fighter strikes a traditional pose. The poker face betrays burning self-belief and belligerence.
This is Birmingham’s Jem Carney, a 5ft 4ins bundle of fury who featured in one of ring history’s most brutal, bloody and controversial battles – a 74-round, three-hour epic that should have been rewarded with the world lightweight title.
Instead, what unfolded on that November night in the incongruous setting of a barn in Revere, Massachusetts – a band playing to mask the illegal gathering – has seeped into fight infamy.
With American champ Jack McAuliffe exhausted and battered near senseless, his anxious backers
