Undefeated lightweight world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis was arrested Tuesday on a domestic violence charge less than two weeks before his fight with former super featherweight Hector Luis Garcia on January 7 in Washington, DC.
Davis, 28, was jailed for a domestic violence charge of battery causing bodily harm in South Florida, where he has been training for his bout against Garcia and is being
in a downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida jail, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. No additional information has been released concerning the details of Davis’s arrest.Davis’s January 7 fight against Hector Luis Garcia is a Showtime pay-per-view event that “is planned as a prelude to an April 25 superfight in Las Vegas against [lightweight] Ryan Garcia,” ESPN said. Davis has a 27-0 record with 25 wins by knockout.
Gervonta Davis celebrates during a WBA Super Lightweight world championship boxing match against Mario Barrios on Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Atlanta. Davis has a long and well-documented history of domestic violence arrests and other run-ins with law enforcement. Shocking video emerged in 2020 of Davis allegedly grabbing and shoving his ex-girlfriend at a charity basketball game, for which he was arrested for domestic violence:
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