Axl Rose denies releasing a press statement regarding the rumored LAX incident in a recent posting at www.myspace.com/gunsnroses, the same site that originally posted the press statement.

Axl claims, "I did not release any statement or authorize either any statement or anyone to release a statement regarding anything at any airport anywhere.

We had recently began working with newer individuals in management in relation to our current Asian tour in support of our Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" in addition to Irving Azoff's though as it happens we are once again touring Asia without management of any kind.

Footage of Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose punching a photographer at LAX airport in Los Angeles has emerged.

Watch video footage of the incident, which took place last Wednesday (December 10), by scrolling down now.

Before the footage was leaked online at TMZ.com, Rose issued a statement saying he "was unhurt last evening when he was accosted by an unruly group of paparazzi".

In the video footage of the incident, Rose can be heard addressing a photographer by saying he'll "break this guy's fucking neck". He is then seen walking over to a photographer and hitting him.

Rose was reportedly on his way to Taipei to perform with Guns N' Roses at the time of the incident.

The band's currently in Seoul, South Korea where the promoter was "sorry" to inform them they would not be able to use a helicopter from the airport to the venue as North Korea would "wonder" what it is!!