Riddick Bowe – who will learn today whether he’ll spend up to 18 months in jail for allegedly violating parole in a Long Island domestic abuse case – insists he’s innocent of slugging his estranged wife.

“I did not beat my wife,” Bowe, 33, told The Post.

“I am innocent of the charge. I did not beat up my wife and that’s the truth,” said Bowe, who was behind bars yesterday at a Mecklenberg, N.C., jail.

Bowe will go before a North Carolina judge to learn whether he violated the terms of probation set last year after he pleaded guilty to abducting his then-wife Judy and his five children from their Charlotte home in 1998.

The 6-foot-5, 315-pound Bowe, who knocked out Evander Holyfield to win the title in 1992, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 30 days behind bars.

Mental damage from his years of punishment in the ring was cited as a reason for leniency.

In court papers filed last week, U.S. Probation Officer Richard Graybill asked a federal judge to revoke Bowe’s four years of probation and sentence him to 18 months in prison.

Bowe was arrested Feb. 8 for allegedly punching Terri Bowe in the head and dragging her back into their Upper Brookville home.

Bowe, who earned more than $75 million in the ring, relinquished his title when he lost a rematch to Holyfield on Nov. 6, 1993.