Robert Watson, 31, from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, was rushed to a Spanish hospital in a serious condition after being knifed in the buttocks, back and stomach in the early hours of Sunday.
The fight at the Hotel TRH in the tourist hotspot reportedly involved seven Englishmen scrapping with the 31-year-old Scot and his younger brother Andrew Mulholland.
Andrew Charles Fríes, 29, a gardener from Gloucester, who was celebrating his birthday in the Spanish party town, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder by police at 2am yesterday following the mass brawl.
Anthony Muggleton, Robert Stafford and Kieran Boughton, all 26, were also held on suspicion of fighting.
Robert’s girlfriend Sarah Arcari, 23, from Ayr, told The Sun Online of the moment her partner contacted her to tell her that he had been knifed.
She said: “I got a Facebook message from him around 5.35pm Sunday evening to say he'd been stabbed and had internal bleeding.
"I called him straight away.
"At first he thought it was four times, he wasn't sure – he was understandably really upset.
"I'd never heard him like that before.
"I think he was just pretty scared about the situation, he'd never been through anything like that before.”
Sarah revealed what she knew about the fight which has left Robert in a serious condition in hospital.
She said: “He said he was walking out the hotel late on and it was just a fight that had got out of hand.
"I think they'd came up to him and asked him something and then a fight broke out.
"I've spoken to his brother Andrew and he's just reassured me that everything's OK.
"We've been going out for three-and-a-half years and nothing like this has happened before – he's a quiet and deep person.”
Robert’s brother Andrew, 20, claims his sibling is “lucky to be alive” after one of the stab wounds was “millimetres off his main artery”.
Speaking with the Daily Record, the manufacturing operator said his brother had “very deep wounds” and had to have emergency surgery.
He said the fight started when the seven English lads hurled insults at them as they passed each other in the corridor.
Andrew said: “They started calling us, ‘Scottish b******s’ and a fight broke out and they pulled out the blades. They had two knives.
“I was fighting with one of them. I was at the bottom and Robert said, ‘Andrew, I’ve been stabbed’.
“I ran up to the hotel room and he was just lying there. I ran down to phone an ambulance.”
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