Ex-Boxing Champ Vinny Paz Charged With Beating and Biting Another Man

Ex-Boxing Champ Vinny Paz Charged With Beating and Biting Another Man
Former boxing champion Vinny Paz attends the Miles Teller Vanguard Award Presentation during the 19th Annual Savannah Film Festival presented by SCAD on October 25, 2016 in Savannah, Georgia. Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCAD
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Vinny Paz, the former five-time world champion who retired from fighting in 2004, was arraigned Wednesday, Jan. 3, for a charge of felony assault arising from an incident on the night of Jan. 1.

Paz, 55, reportedly went with his girlfriend to the home of a friend, 34-year-old Nathaniel Lavoie around 11:30 p.m.  According to witnesses, Paz pounded on the door of the apartment at 310 Hawkins St. in Providence, Rhode Island, until Lavoie let him in.