By Ryan Songalia

Edison Miranda's co-manager Steve Benbasat is reiterating claims first reported on BoxingScene.com that Alex Abraham, brother of IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham, had attacked "Pantera" as he was receiving medical attention.

"Alex immediately jumped into the ring and ran right up to Miranda while he was lying on his back and begin taunting him and saying disgraceful things and making disgraceful gestures. He actually starting kicking at Miranda's feet. I'm not sure if he actually hit Miranda or hit the mat next to Miranda's feet. This all happened while the doctor was trying to examine Miranda while he was lying on the the mat," Benbasat said.

"After someone removed Alex from that area of the ring, he immediately ran over to our corner and repeatedly told us that he was going to kill all of us. He actually said these exact same words to us in Germany after the first fight. I can assure you that in neither fight not one member of Pantera's team even said one word to Alex. In fact, no one ever even looked his way."

Benbasat said the younger Abraham appeared to be "in some type of uncontrollable outrage," and wasn't ready to go quietly, even after being forcibly removed from the area.

"As Alex was being escorted out of the building, I believe he had some more verbal altercations with a couple of people from our corner.

"After it was considered he was a threat to the public, orders were given to have him arrested. After security located him somewhere else in the casino about 30 minutes later, he apparently got in a physical confrontation with them. Finally, the police arrived and arrested him."

Sauerland Events, promoter of both Abraham brothers, released a press release Sunday claiming that there was no truth to reports that Alex Abraham was involved in any such behavior.

“I did not violently attack Miranda or any of his team,” said Alexander Abraham. “It was completely the other way around – our team was attacked by Miranda’s people with chairs.”

Says Benbasat, "I can assure you that no one came close to hitting Abraham with a chair as he claims."

Alex Abraham was arrested, charged with "resisting officers and obstruction" and detained by Broward County Sherrifs until Sunday morning, when bail in the amount of $100.00 was raised to free the 21-0 (15 KO) junior middleweight.

Abraham and Miranda first met in Germany in 2006, with "King" Arthur pulling out a unanimous decision despite suffering a broken jaw. Determined to prove that his injury had prevented him from dominating his foe, Abraham made the trans-Atlantic trip to Hollwood, FL's Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to face Miranda on his home turf.

Abraham dropped Miranda three times en route to a fourth round TKO victory.

Benbasat says that Miranda is "feeling fine," adding "if you saw him, you would never know he was in a fight last night."

"Unfortunately, he got caught with a short right to the chin which he never fully recovered from. Abraham was able to capitalize and close him out since it occurred so early in the round. The unfortunate thing is that Miranda was boxing nicely in the first 3 rounds as the scorecards indicated. If things would have continued this way, it was very possible that we would have won the fight on points as Abraham's style makes it very hard for a knockout.

"However, this is boxing, and one punch can change everything as was illustrated in the fourth round. Miranda's aggressive style provides an opportunity for his opponents, and Abraham was able to expose that with some accurate counterpunching which ultimately ended the fight."

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