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any more news on scott harrison up your way chad?
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Scots boxing champion Scott Harrison faces more Spanish jail time
May 20 2012 Exclusive by Gerard Couzens, Sunday Mail
Scott Harrison
SHAMED boxing champ Scott Harrison has been ordered to return to Spain for a new assault trial that could see him jailed for another six years.
The fighter has been told to appear in a Costa del Sol court in September to face claims he attacked three men at a brothel.
Prosecutors want him jailed for two years for each of the three counts of assault he is charged with.
A conviction would automatically mean more prison time as he already has a criminal record in Spain. Harrison, 34, served two-and-a-half years for assaulting two men, including a police officer.
He returned to Scotland after being released last September.
A second custodial sentence in Spain would wreck his hopes of a triumphant return to boxing.
The ex-WBO featherweight champ is due to make his comeback against French-Algerian Brahim Bariz at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow on June 29 after seven years out of the ring.
Three judges will decide whether to jail Harrison after a one-day trial in Malaga on September 26.
The prosecution witnesses will include a brothel owner who claims the boxer and two pals attacked him and two customers in a bust-up five years ago.
One of the alleged victims committed suicide after the fight at Oxigeno, a short drive from Harrison’s repossessed former home in Alhaurin el Grande, near Malaga.
State prosecutors say Harrison and fellow Scots David and Edward McGill smashed Spaniard Salvador Jimenez on the head with an ashtray after being thrown out of the brothel on May 20, 2007.
An assault outside is alleged to have taken place as Salvador’s friend Rafael Sainz tried to get him to hospital.
Rafael, 31, jumped off a roof terrace at his home in 2009 after spiraling into depression, which pals blame on the attack.
Salvador received treatment for injuries to his neck, head, knees and wrist. Brothel owner Francisco Gonzalez lost a tooth.
Prosecutors also want Harrison and his two pals to pay £8500 in compensation to their alleged victims if convicted.
He spent two days in custody earlier this month in Glasgow after being arrested over claims he assaulted fiancee Stacey Gardner, 29, at their home.
But Harrison says he has banished the drink, drug and depression demons that have plagued him in recent years.
Earlier this month, he said: “Scott Harrison is going to be back – with a bang.”
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It's more bad news for Frank Warren.
According to Phil Kirkbride of the Liverpool ECHO, Tony Bellew’s solicitors have stated that as of today, the British light-heavyweight champion's contract with Frank Warren Promotions Limited has come to an end at the fighter’s request.
Bellew's team have told the ECHO that FWP has received notification of this through email and a hard copy is in the post. Bellew now considers himself free to sign a deal with a new promoter.
However, as was the case when James DeGale announced through his solicitors that he was spillting with Warren back in January, the promoter insists Bellew remains contracted both to his promotional company, and him as his manager.
In a statement to the ECHO, FWP responded:
“Tony Bellew has a legally binding and exclusive promotional agreement with Frank Warren Promotions Ltd.
“In addition to that he has a British Boxing Board of Control Boxer-Manager agreement with Frank Warren."
“Tony Bellew is not at liberty to determine (sic) either contract without going through the proper channels as per the terms of those agreements. Unless and until he brings a successful challenge then they remain in full force and effect.
“Needless to say, any attempt to ignore either binding agreement or to pre-determine the same will be defended by Frank Warren and Frank Warren Promotions Ltd.”
Bellew has previously stated that it was a 'dream come true' to be back on Sky when he defended his British title against Danny McIntosh last month on a card promoted by David Coldwell and Matchroom.
He said: “It’s great being back on Sky Sports, it’s a dream. There are great fighters out there that are dying because they don’t have a profile and when you are on Sky Sports, that’s what you get, and you need that to fight for the big titles and money, which is where I think I should be.”
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