{"id":258709,"date":"2025-07-12T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258709\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:42:12","slug":"gervonta-davis-wba-lightweight-champion-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258709\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis: WBA lightweight champion arrested on domestic violence charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis was arrested on Friday on misdemeanour domestic violence charges.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The arrest was related to an incident near Miami, Florida, on 15 June, Father&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend, the mother of two of his children, outside her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old was taken into custody in Miami but has since been released on $10,000 (\u00a37,400) bond, with a court hearing scheduled for 29 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has twice previously been arrested on battery domestic violence charges, in February 2020 and December 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis has also 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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former IBF super featherweight champion is unbeaten from 31 professional fights, although his most recent bout was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp8lj8pl588o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial draw with Lamont Roach Jr<\/a> in March and they have a rematch scheduled for August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis was arrested on Friday on misdemeanour domestic violence charges. The arrest was related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258709","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839849743367902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}