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A manhunt for boxing champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis is over.
A fugitive task force took Davis into custody Wednesday in Miami’s Design District, according to a social media post from Miami Gardens police, two weeks after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Police said the charges stemmed from an incident at a Miami Gardens business on Oct. 27, 2025. Davis’ ex-girlfriend, Courtney Rossel, filed a civil lawsuit in Miami alleging Davis assaulted her at her workplace earlier this week.
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Gervonta Davis beats Hector Luis Garcia in their WBA World Lightweight Championship bout at Capital One Arena on January 7, 2023 in Washington, DC (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Rossel claimed that Davis stormed into a men’s club where she worked as a VIP cocktail server and attacked her in a back room that did not have cameras. Davis is said to have dragged Rossel through a stairwell, kitchen and back exit before assaulting her in a parking garage.
Rossel, who was in a five-month relationship with Davis before the incident, claims there have been several other assaults, saying Davis “physically assaulted and choked” her “at least” four times.
She also claimed that Davis threatened to kill her twice in September in writing.
Representatives for Davis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The boxer was scheduled to fight Jake Paul in November, but the fight was canceled after the lawsuit was filed against Davis. After the fight’s cancellation, Paul trashed Davis as “an actual walking human piece of garbage.”
Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Jake Paul face off during a “Jake vs. Tank” kickoff press conference at the Palladium Times Square in New York on September 22, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“Working with him is an absolute nightmare. The unprofessionalism, the bizarre requests, showing up hours late to shoots. To the countless arrests and related charges and lawsuits. If you support this man, you are supporting the most heinous sin a man can commit,” Paul wrote on his Instagram Stories.
“I didn’t want to give this misogynist a platform to grow his fans and to grow his bank account. My company is a champion of women. I’m so sorry to everyone involved. Mostly to the undercard fighters, to my team at MVP and to my team that worked so hard to prepare for this fight. Sacrificing time with loved ones and children, just for this fool to lose his mind again, that it’s like losing his unintelligent mind again. to the top of culture and sport, including in positions of power.
Davis, 31, has had other run-ins with law enforcement in South Florida. Last summer he was arrested for domestic violence, which was later dropped. He was placed under house arrest in June 2023 after pleading guilty to a hit-and-run accident that left four people injured in November 2020. Davis later violated the terms of his sentence and was jailed for the remainder of it.
He has been arrested on charges of violence against women at least two other times. One of those arrests occurred less than two weeks before his fight against Hector Luis Garcia. The fight’s status remained unchanged, and he won via technical decision in the ninth round.
Gervonta “Tank” Davis speaks at a press conference about his exhibition bout with Jake Paul at the Kaseya Center on September 23, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images)
Davis, the current WBA lightweight champion, is 30-0-1, with his last fight a draw against Lamont Roach Jr.
