By Carlos Boogs

Former world champion Paul Spadafora's preliminary hearing has been postponed on charges stemming from a December incident, where the boxer allegedly stabbed his brother, kicked his mother and then threatened Pittsburgh police who arrived to assist his family members.

Spadafora's attorney, William Difenderfer, says the hearing was delayed until Jan. 12 because the boxer's 66-year-old mother, Ann, wasn't available to testify.

Difenderfer didn't directly address the charges against his 41-year-old client, but says he expects they will eventually be "resolved" — though he didn't say how.

In 2005, Spadafora was sentenced 21-to-60 months in prison for shooting his pregnant girlfriend. Between 2004 to 2011, he was arrested three times for drug and alcohol related changes. On April 4th of last last year, Spadafora was arrested for threatening a store cleak with a knife in Armstrong County and then later in the night he assaulting a 63-year-old woman in Allegheny County.

According to the Pittsburgh Gazette, Pittsburgh police responded to a domestic call on December 21, after Spadafora "came home high" and attacked his mother and brother after an argument broke out. Spadafora then began fighting with the police and had to be subdued with pepper spray and tasers.

According to the criminal complaint, Spadafora said, "Mom, get all their names. I know they have to live in the city. I'm gonna kill them."

According to police, he spit on officers and said, "Good, that (expletive) got AIDS now."

Spadafora was charged with seven counts of terroristic threats, four counts of aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated harassment by a prisoner, one count of simple assault and one count of possessing an instrument of crime.