MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. -- Former lightweight champion Paul Spadafora was ordered Monday to stand trial on attempted homicide and other charges for allegedly shooting his girlfriend last month.

	The "Pittsburgh Kid" will stand trial in the alleged shooting of his girlfriend.

But questions remain about whether Nadine Russo, 20, of Pittsburgh, is willing to testify against Spadafora. Russo didn't testify during Monday's preliminary hearing, but she appeared outside District Justice Mary Ann Cercone's office afterward.

She walked stooped over, shielded by an unidentified man who said she's still in pain from the chest wound she suffered Oct. 26.

Russo declined comment, but Spadafora's attorney William Difenderfer said he's heard that Russo won't testify.

Brushing those concerns aside, Assistant Allegheny County District Attorney Edward Borkowski said there's enough witness testimony against Spadafora to warrant a trial.

"I will not comment on the state of her cooperation (with authorities)," Borkowski said. "The case will proceed with or without her cooperation."

Borkowski called four witnesses -- none of whom saw the shooting. But they were enough that Cercone ordered Spadafora to stand trial on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and violation of firearms laws. He remains free on bond.

The 28-year-old boxer, known as the "Pittsburgh Kid," didn't comment.

Spadafora is 36-0-1 as a professional and defended the IBF lightweight title nine times after winning it in August 1999. Spadafora's last fight was in May, a draw against Leonard Dorin in Pittsburgh.

He gave up the 135-pound lightweight title in June, saying he wanted to move up to the junior welterweight division. He has been known to balloon to 165 pounds at times.

Spadafora has had minor brushes with the law. Most recently, he was charged with public drunkenness and urinating in public two days before Russo was shot.