Former boxer Vinny Paz is facing misdemeanor charges after allegeding smashing bar stools in a dispute over his bill at a Warwick ale house.

Police in Warwick tell the Providence Journal and WPRI-TV, Paz smashed two barstools against the bar when the bartender asked him some 20 times to pay his tab, reportedly $23.

The owner of the Grid Iron Ale House and Grille on Post Road in Warwick had to step between Paz and his employee to break up the dispute on Wednesday.

Police arrived, and charged Paz with malicious damage and disorderly conduct, both are misdemeanors.  He is to answer to the charges January 28 in District Court in Warwick.

Paz has faced the law several times in the past, most recently last July, when he wound up in a scrape with two women at a Federal Hill nightspot.  He pleaded to a charge of disorderly conduct, assault charges were dropped and he was ordered to perform 30 hours' community service.

He fought under the nickname the "Pazmanian Devil", and won titles in the lightweight and light middleweight classes in 1987 and 1991.