http://www.secondsout.com/uk/lukl.cfm?ccs=471&cs=20687

By Ant Evans: A legal blunder prevented troubled WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison from receiving a bail hearing yesterday. Harrison's bail request was due to be heard by a Malaga, Spain court yesterday but his lawyers wrote the documentation up incorrectly.

They have re-submitted for a hearing today, which is said to be the absolutely final deadline for Harrison to extract himself from the Spanish prison he has been languishing in for the last month after allegedly assaulting local man.

Even if the Spanish court allows Harrison bail it is difficult to see how Harrison can satisfy the WBO and British Boxing Board of Control that he is fit to box December 9 against Nicky Cook in London. Harrison, who is also facing assault charges in the UK, has admitted to drink problems and has claimed to be suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Derry Mathews has been lined up to face the undefeated Cook in a WBU title fight, which, obviously, is a huge step backwards for Cook.