Champion boxer finally arrested on battery charges after two-week manhunt

A manhunt for boxing champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis is over.

A fugitive task unit took Davis into custody connected Wednesday successful Miami’s Design District, according to a societal media station by Miami Gardens police, 2 weeks aft a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Police said the charges stemmed from an incidental astatine a Miami Gardens concern connected Oct. 27, 2025. Davis' ex-girlfriend, Courtney Rossel, filed a civilian suit successful Miami alleging that Davis bushed her astatine her spot of employment earlier this week.

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Gervonta Davis punches Hector Luis Garcia successful their WBA World Lightweight Championship bout astatine Capital One Arena connected Jan. 7, 2023 successful Washington, D.C.  (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Rossel claimed that Davis stormed into a gentlemen's nine wherever she worked arsenic a VIP cocktail server and attacked her successful a backmost country that did not person cameras. Davis is alleged to person dragged Rossel done a stairwell, room and backmost exit earlier assaulting her successful a parking garage.

Rossel, who was successful a five-month narration with Davis earlier the incident, claims determination person been aggregate different assaults, saying Davis has "physically assaulted and choked" her "at least" 4 times.

She besides claimed that Davis, successful writing, threatened to termination her doubly successful September.

Representatives for Davis did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The boxer had been scheduled to combat Jake Paul successful November, but the lucifer was canceled aft the suit was filed against Davis. Upon the fight's cancellation, Paul shredded Davis arsenic "an existent walking quality portion of garbage."

Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Jake Paul look disconnected during a "Jake vs. Tank" kickoff property league astatine Palladium Times Square successful New York connected Sept. 22, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"Working with him is an implicit nightmare. The unprofessionalism, the bizarre requests, the showing up hours precocious to shoots. To the galore arrests and related accusations and lawsuits. If you enactment this antheral you enactment the astir vile misdeed a antheral tin commit," Paul wrote connected his Instagram Stories.

"I didn’t privation to springiness this pistillate abuser a level to turn his fans and to turn his slope account. My institution champions women. I’m truthful atrocious to everyone involved. Mostly to the undercard fighters, to my squad astatine MVP and to my squad who worked truthful hard prepping for this fight. Sacrificing clip with loved ones and kids conscionable for this fool to suffer his unintelligent caput again. It’s scary that devilish men similar this tin emergence to the apical of civilization and sports, including successful positions of power.

Davis, 31, has had different run-ins with instrumentality enforcement successful South Florida. Last summer, helium was arrested connected home unit charges, which were aboriginal dropped. He was placed nether location apprehension successful June 2023 aft helium entered a blameworthy plea successful a hit-and-run clang that near 4 radical injured successful November 2020. Davis aboriginal violated the presumption of his condemnation and was jailed for the remainder of it.

He has been arrested connected battle charges against women astatine slightest 2 different times. One of those arrests occurred little than 2 weeks earlier his bout against Hector Luis Garcia. The presumption of the combat went unchanged, and helium won via referee method determination successful the ninth round.

Gervonta "Tank" Davis speaks astatine quality league astir his accumulation lucifer with Jake Paul astatine Kaseya Center connected Sept. 23, 2025 successful Miami, Florida.  (Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images)

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Davis, the existent WBA lightweight champion, is 30-0-1, with his astir caller combat being a gully against Lamont Roach Jr.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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