As boxer Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis prepares for his exhibition fight against Jake Paul Nov. 14 in Miami, he faces accusations of attacking a woman in a strip club this week, according to a civil lawsuit.
The woman filed a civil lawsuit against Davis in Miami-Dade County on Thursday, Oct. 30, accusing the boxer of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The woman said the attack took place Monday, Oct. 27 at Tootsie’s Cabaret, a strip club in Miami Gardens where she is a VIP cocktail waitress, according to the complaint filed with the 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County. According to the complaint, Davis choked, grabbed, pulled, pushed and hit her in the back of the head.
The incident began at approximately 4:15 a.m., when Davis located the woman inside Tootsie’s in an upstairs VIP lounge, where Davis forcibly grabbed and dragged her through a stairway, through the kitchen, and through the back entrance all the way into the parking garage, according to the complaint. At that point, according to the complaint, Davis continuously grabbed, choked, pushed, pulled, and struck her in the back of the head, leaving her terrified and alone and embarrassed for her co-workers and employer, according to the complaint.
The woman and Davis met in 2022 and had been intimately involved for five months before she said she was attacked in the club, according to the complaint.
During those five months, Davis physically assaulted and choked her four times before the latest incident and on two occasions threatened in writing to kill her, according to the complaint.
Calvin Ford, Davis’ trainer, on Thursday evening told USA TODAY Sports he had learned of the lawsuit about 10 minutes earlier. He called the lawsuit ‘nonsense” and said they were ‘trying to see where it’s coming from.”
Of Davis, Ford said, ‘He’s doing great. Everything’s good. That’s why we’re trying to find out what’s going on.”
Davis has a home in Southwest Ranches, Florida, where he has been training for his upcoming fight.
As noted in the woman’s lawsuit, Davis has been arrested multiple times for allegations of violence committed against women.
On July 11, Davis was arrested on a battery charge after an incident involving a woman who is the mother of his two children. But the charges were dropped when the woman and another witness refused to cooperate, according to the State Attorney’s office in Miami.
The woman who filed the lawsuit Oct. 30 is represented by attorneys Richard C. Wolfe and Jeff Chukwuma.