{"id":375079,"date":"2026-01-17T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:21:08","slug":"wba-finally-addresses-gervonta-davis-status-as-champion-after-arrest-warrant-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375079\/","title":{"rendered":"WBA finally addresses Gervonta Davis status as champion after arrest warrant issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After news that an arrest warrant has been issued for WBA lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis, the WBA has provided an update on whether action will be taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tank\u2019 Davis was arrested on battery domestic violence charges in both February 2020 and December 2022, before being arrested once again last July after reportedly striking one of his ex-girlfriends. Charges were dropped just one month later.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning 135lb champion was then scheduled to face Jake Paul in a lucrative showdown in Miami, until he was pulled from the card due to new domestic violence allegations, after a civil lawsuit was filed by another of his ex-partners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua stepped in for Davis and handed Paul a first stoppage defeat last month<\/a>, whilst the Baltimore-born bruiser was left contemplating his future in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, it was confirmed that Davis had been issued an arrest warrant for the incident that cost him his place in the Paul event, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvgr0p3z9dmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">charges including false imprisonment, battery and attempted kidnapping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, WBA President Gilberto Mendoza has informed respected boxing journalist Salvador Rodriguez that the WBA \u2018intends to take swift action\u2019 as they analyse Davis\u2019 status as their lightweight champion.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f WBA analiza estancia de Gervonta Davis como su campe\u00f3n de peso Ligero tras problemas legales \u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>El presidente <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBABoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@WBABoxing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GilberticoWBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@GilberticoWBA<\/a>, confirm\u00f3 a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNKnockOut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@ESPNKnockOut<\/a> que el comit\u00e9 de campeonatos pretende tomar pronta acci\u00f3n. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cejM3pQWYc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cejM3pQWYc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salvador Rodriguez (@ChavaESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChavaESPN\/status\/2011872276061298748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result, it is expected that Davis may soon be stripped of his title, leaving number one contender Floyd Schofield and WBA #2 Lucas Bahdi as the expected participants in a scrap for the vacant belt.<\/p>\n<p>Both Schofield and Bahdi remain undefeated in their respective professional careers, but 23-year-old Schofield would be expected to enter the ring as the favourite, following on from his impressive first-round beatdown of Tevin Farmer in his solitary outing of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After news that an arrest warrant has been issued for WBA lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis, the WBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375079","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=375079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}