Gervonta Davis arrested again in Miami. His Father’s Day turned violent, cops say
Lightweight boxing champ Gervonta “Tank” Davis was arrested early Friday over an incident that occurred on Father’s Day, as first reported by sports radio talk show host Andy Slater on X.
Davis, 30, was taken into custody in Miami Beach early Friday on battery and domestic violence charges.
According to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald, Davis went to his ex girlfriend’s Doral home at about 5 p.m. June 15 to pick up their two children for Father’s Day. During the exchange, a verbal altercation occurred which escalated into a physical confrontation.
“The victim reported that the defendant instructed her to remove the children from his vehicle, stating he no longer intended to take them,” the report reads. “While she was positioned at the rear passenger door and leaning forward to retrieve her daughter from the back seat, the defendant, positioned in the driver’s seat, struck her in the back of the head.”
Davis then allegedly proceeded to slap the ex on the right side of her face, resulting in “a minor laceration to the inner area of her lip.”
The “distressed and crying” victim sent a text to her mother, who came outside and filmed part of the incident on her cellphone. The video showed Davis throwing a small box at the victim, says the affidavit. Davis left the scene and the victim went to Baptist Health Hospital to receive medical attention, where she was first interviewed by cops.
A probable cause message was entered into the FCIC (Florida Crime Information Center) and NCIC (National Crime Information Center) database requesting Davis’ detainment should law enforcement come into contact with him.
A little after midnight on Friday, they did. The fighter was taken into custody on the 900 block of Lincoln Lane north by Miami Beach cops and transported to the Doral Police Department. When presented with a Miranda Warning form, the Baltimore native refused to sign it, police say.
The father of three remains at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center; bond had not been set as of noon Friday.
The WBA lightweight titleholder is still scheduled to fight Lamont Roach in a rematch Aug. 16 in Las Vegas.
The boxer’s arrest is the latest in a string of at least two brushes with the law in the last five years. In February 2020, Davis turned himself in to Coral Gables police on a simple battery charge after video of him at the EeeZeeStevie All-Star Celebrity Basketball Game at UM’s Watsco Center showed him shoving an ex-girlfriend. The charges were eventually dropped.
Around two years later, in December 2022, cops responded to Davis’ Parkland home after he allegedly hit an unidentified woman “on the right side of her head with a closed hand slap.” Florida prosecutors later also dropped those charges because the victim didn’t want to press charges.
