{"id":236270,"date":"2025-10-31T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236270\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:50:08","slug":"gervonta-davis-world-champion-boxer-facing-allegations-of-battery-and-kidnapping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236270\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis: World champion boxer facing allegations of battery and kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis is facing a new lawsuit following fresh allegations of attacking an ex-girlfriend – two weeks before he is due to fight Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

A civil lawsuit was filed against the 30-year-old by ex-girlfriend Courtney Rossel in Miami-Dade County, Florida on Thursday, accusing the boxer of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n

Rossel is seeking compensatory and punitive damages “of over $50,000” (\u00a338,145), along with requesting a jury trial.<\/p>\n

American Davis is scheduled to face YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul<\/a> in an exhibition bout in Miami on 14 November.<\/p>\n

According to the new complaint, Davis attacked Rossel at her place of work on 27 October and had previously made threats to kill.<\/p>\n

Rossel also alleges there were “at least” four previous incidents when he “physically assaulted and choked” her.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit says Rossel is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and seeking therapeutic treatment.<\/p>\n

It comes two months after a domestic violence case<\/a> against Davis was dropped by another ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n

He was also previously arrested on battery domestic violence charges in February 2020 and December 2022.<\/p>\n

Davis served 44 days in jail in 2023 after violating the terms of a 90-day house arrest sentence, in relation to a criminal hit-and-run case that occurred in his hometown of Baltimore in November 2020.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has contacted representatives for Davis for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis is facing a new lawsuit following fresh allegations of attacking an ex-girlfriend –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}