Former three-weight boxing champion Gervonta ‘Tank‘ Davis was on charges of battery, false imprisonment and attempted kidnapping after a two-week search, the Miami Gardens Police Department announced on Wednesday (January 28) via ESPN.
The department worked alongside the United States Marshals fugitive task force to conduct a three-county surveillance operation leading to Davis’ arrest, which occurred without incident. The boxer was booked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 10:00 p.m. local time, according to jail records obtained by ESPN.
A warrant for Davis’ arrest was issued on January 14 stemming from an incident in which he allegedly entered a strip club and confronted his ex-girlfriend on October 27. The boxer allegedly took the woman, who worked as a VIP cocktail server at the club, into a back room, attacked her and restrained her, which included grabbing her by her hair and throat and telling her, “You think I would not find you.”
Davis then allegedly took her to the parking lot of the club where she was eventually released. The woman told police she met Davis in 2022 and they dated for about five months in 2025 before they broke up and she stopped communicating with him.
The woman filed a report with the Miami Gardens Police Department, as well as a separate civil complaint against Davis.
“What the police said is exactly in line with our lawsuit. So whatever investigation they did, they determined it was enough to get a judge to sign off on an arrest warrant,” the woman’s attorney, Jeff Chukwuma, told ESPN on January 14. “The state attorney had to make the determination before, which coincides exactly with our civil complaint.”
Davis was training in Miami for his exhibition fight with Jake Paul, which was eventually canceled, in October and last appeared in a match against Lamont Roach Jr., which resulted in a draw, in March. Davis has dealt with a string of legal issues, which includes past domestic violence charges, many of which have been dropped, and was sentenced to three years of probation and a 90-day house arrest in connection with a hit-and-run case in Baltimore.
It’s unclear whether Davis’ latest arrest would violate his probation in Maryland, according to ESPN.
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