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WEBVTT BOXER WASVERY COMBATIVE WITH POLICE.REPORTER: YEAH, ACCORDING TOTHIS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT PAULSPADAFORA WHO IS NOW 41 YEARSOLD WAS COMBATIVE, THREATENINGAND SPIT AT POLICE.ACE BROTHER TELLS ME IT ALLSTARTED BECAUSE THE BOXER WASDRUNK AND STABBED HIM INSIDETHEIR HOME.>> NO, I WAS LYING DOWN ON THECOUCH IN THERE AND THE NEXTTHING YOU KNOW AFTER HE WASTHROWING THINGS AT ME, AND THENI'M LIKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING,PAUL?AND THEN AFTER THAT HE STUCK MEWITH ONE OF HIS KNIVES.REPORTER: CHARLES SAYS HISBROTHER PAUL SPADAFORA'S KNIFEPUT THROUGH HIS SWEATS AND DEEPINTO HIS SKIN.HE SAYS HE WAS IN PAIN ANDBLEEDING AND THE FORMER BOXINGCHAMP WAS ORDERING HIM APRILTHEIR MOTHER OUT OF THE HOUSE,SO THEY WENT TO A NEIGHBOR'S ANDCALLED POLICE.HE SAYS HIS BROTHER THEN TURNEDHIS ANGER TO THEM REFUSING TOLISTEN.>> THEY TAZED HIM, THEYHANDCUFFED HIM.REPORTER: ACCORDING TO THECRIMINAL COMPLAINT WHILEHANDCUFFED THE PITTSBURGH KIDYELLED "MOM GET ALL THEIR NAMES,I KNOW THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN THISCITY I'M GOING TO KILL THEM"THAT'S WHEN POLICE SAY PAULSPADAFORA BEGAN SPITTING ON THEMSNOW WAS DRIPPING ANYWAYS.HE WAS DRUNK.REPORTER: AND PAUL SPADAFORA HASADMIT IT MANY TIMES THAT ALCOHOLIS OFTEN THE REASON FOR HISTROUBLES AND DEMISE OF HISCAREER IN THE RING, INCLUDING INTHIS INTERVIEW IN OCTOBER 2013.>> I LET A LOT OF PEOPLE DOWN.REPORTER: STANDING HERE ON THEIRPORCH STILL HURTING PAULSPADAFORA'S BROTHER WANTS HIMHOME FROM JAIL.>> I LOVE HIM BUT HE STABBED ME,I MEAN AND I DIDN'T EVEN DONOTHING TO GET STABBED BUT -- MYFEELINGS AIN'T GOING TO CHANGEFOR HIM, I MEAN HE JUST NEEDSHELP, THAT'S ALL.REPORTER: PAUL SPADAFORA REMAINSHERE INSIDE THE ALLEGANY COUNTYJAIL.HE IS CHARGED WITH A LIST OFCRIMES, INCLUDING SEVERAL COUNTSOF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AGAINSTHIS FAMILY AND POLICE.

Advertisement 'Pittsburgh Kid' Paul Spadafora accused of stabbing brother, arrested after police scuffle with Tasers, spit mask Former world lightweight champion Paul Spadafora was arrested Wednesday night on aggravated assault charges after a domestic dispute. Police officers used pepper spray, stun guns and a spit mask to subdue the boxer. Share Shares Copy Link Copy

Former world lightweight champion Paul Spadafora was arrested Wednesday night after being accused of stabbing his brother in a domestic dispute -- an incident which saw police officers use pepper spray and a stun gun to subdue the boxer. "I love him, but he stabbed me, and I didn't even do nothing to get stabbed," Charles Marsico told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 on Thursday. "But my feelings ain't going to change for him. He just needs help, that's all I know." "I'm not going to make some statement to reserve judgment or anything like that," said defense attorney Phil DiLucente, who has also represented Spadafora in previous cases. "I'm just going to say he has a good heart, and we're going to try and make this better for him so that we can get him out of jail sooner rather than later." Police saw broken ceramics, pots, pans and utensils on the ground outside Spadafora's house on Kearns Avenue, and he was yelling at his mother and pacing on the front porch when officers approached the residence in the city's Westwood neighborhood, according to the criminal complaint. "Everything in the house is all broken from him throwing things," Marsico said. "My mother, she tried to have Christmas, it was all nice and all that, and he wants to come home, I guess, and start trouble." Spadafora, 41, refused officers' commands not to re-enter the house after Marsico met them in the driveway, showed them a wound to his upper right thigh and said, "He did it," according to the complaint. "I was lying down on the couch, and the next thing you know he's throwing things at me, and I'm like, 'What are you doing, Paul?' And then after that, he just stuck me with one of his knives," Marsico said. According to the complaint, police were finally able to get the combative Spadafora on the ground and carry him down the front steps after using pepper spray and Tasers. "Paul screamed, 'Mom, get all their names, I know they have to live in the city, I'm gonna kill them.' … Paul then attempted to spit on myself from approximately 8 feet away," Officer Sheradan Pyles wrote in the complaint. "Paul then turned to Officer Sherman and spit onto his chest area, appeared to be aiming for his face. Paul's hood was held over his face until medics were able to place a spit mask on Paul." Spadafora's mother told police that he had "come home high and was mad at Charlie, they started fighting and Paul stabbed Charlie," according to the complaint. Spadafora was arraigned Thursday morning in the Allegheny County Jail on multiple counts of aggravated assault and terroristic threats, according to an online docket. He was being held on $100,000 bail. Considered one of the most skilled boxers of his era, Spadafora's championship career was derailed by multiple arrests beginning in the early 2000s. He relinquished his title after shooting his girlfriend in McKees Rocks in October 2003 and served time in a prison boot camp. Most recently in April, Spadafora agreed to take anger management classes and pay a fine to resolve charges stemming from a scuffle with a female customer at the Redstone Tavern in Crafton.