WBA Champ Tank Davis Released From Jail in Broward County Florida on Domestic Violence Charges, Capitol One Arena Card in Jeopardy
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Parkland, Florida (December 29th, 2022)– Southpaw 27-0 World Boxing Association World Lightweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, who is scheduled to headline in the main event at Capitol Arena in Washington, D.C. against 16-0 Dominican southpaw challenger Hector Luis Garcia, the current WBA undefeated World Super Featherweight champion, on January 7, 2022 on Showtime, has been arrested on a domestic violence charge of battery causing bodily harm, and jailed in Broward County, Florida, after slapping a woman in the face and caused her injury to her lip in Parkland, Florida, on Monday, December 27, 2022.
Gervonta Davis was released from jail on Wednesday afternoon and issued a no-contact order in relation to his recent arrest in South Florida.
The boxer was held overnight in Broward County main jail before a scheduled court hearing in Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida on Wednesday. The presiding judge set bond at $1,000 and issued a no-contact order prior to his release Wednesday afternoon.
A court date was not yet assigned as this goes to publish. The official charge is one count of Battery-Causing Bodily Harm, a first-degree misdemeanor and handled as a domestic violence case.
Davis took to social media to dispute the charges.
“Do not let these people misguide you all on this bullsh!t,” Davis stated in an Instagram post, accompanied by an image from Tuesday at 12:44 p.m. ET—less than an hour before the 911 calls—which shows Davis watching “Frozen” with his daughter. “This was just yesterday, moments before me and my child mother had argument! Watching Frozen with my oldest daughter. I never put my hands on my child mother nor my f—ing daughter. Are you f—ing crazy!! Im (sic) not a monster I been quiet for too long.”
Previously, Davis was arrested on February 1, 2020, by the Coral Gables Florida Police Department, at a celebrity basketball game at the Watsco Center at the University of Miami, for roughing up and battering his former girlfriend in public. The report noted Davis and the woman had a child together. Davis was seen on video surveillance walking over to the woman, grabbing her shirt with his right hand close to her throat, and dragging her by her shirt to a separate room. He was charged with simple battery domestic violence at that time. Police said video surveillance showed Davis pulling his arm back and then forward, which police said was consistent with a strike to the face where the victim sustained injuries to her lip and left jaw. The final disposition of that incident is not known.
Philadelphia welterweight sensation Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis could get get ther call and be moved up to the Showtime main event if Davis does not make bail, or cannot get released in time to complete preparations for his scheduled main event 12 round bout with Garcia, and a new substitute opponent for Garcia cannot be found.
BoxRec does not list a world title at stake in the scheduled 12 round main event between Davis, who still holds the WBA title he last defended by sixth round stoppage of 14-0 Rolando Romero at Barclays Center in Brooklyn this past May 2022.
Those also scheduled to appear on the Premier Boxing champions Showtime pay-Per-View card include: 13-1 super welterweight prospect Vito Mielicki Jr. of Roseland, New Jersey, against 9-1-1 Omar Rosales of Houston, Texas in an eight rounder; 31-0 middleweight Demetrius ‘Boo Boo’ Andrade versus 26-4-1 Demond Nicholson of Laurel, Maryland, in a 10 rounder; 24-0 welterweight prospect Rashidi Ellis of Lynn, Massachusetts, versus 25-1 Roiman Villa of Rosario, Venezuela, in a 12 rounder; and highly touted Jaron ‘ Boots’ Ellis, the top world ranked Philly welterweight nobody wants to fight, in a world title bout in the preliminary to the main event.
Ennis, 29-0 with 27 knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will face 21-1-1 Karen Chudhadzhian, a Ukrainian fighting out of Karlsruhew, Germany, for the International Boxing Federation World Welterweight interim title for a shot at the full IBF title held by Errol Spence Jr. A previous IBF interim Welterweight title bout in October 2020 between Sergey Lipinets and Custio Clayton ended in a 12 round draw. Chudhadzhian, who has 11 knockouts in 23 bouts, is 2-0 in 10 rounders, lost a three round decision in his second bout, and has never fought outside of Europe.
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis has 27 knockouts in 29 pro bouts, and has only been past the fourth round twice, stopping two opponents in the sixth round. In Ennis’ only previous world title bout, for the vacant International Boxing Organization World Welterweight title in December 2020 at Mohegan Sun casino, ended in a 159 second no contest with South African southpaw Chris van Heerden due to a cut sustained from an accidental butt.
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