Boxer Gervonta Davis' domestic violence case dropped

Undefeated boxing star Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’ domestic violence case has been dropped by prosecutors on Monday, TMZ reports.

The case stems from an incident involving, Vanessa Posso, the mother of his child in Broward County, Fla., on Dec. 27 of last year. After appearing in court for the situation on Monday, the victim decided against pressing charges.

Instead of jail time or probation, he was served another way. Both groups “agreed that the defendant had to complete an anger management course and parenting class,” prosecutors said in a statement obtained by TMZ.

The victim originally told police that Davis hit her with a, “closed hand type slap,” which left a cut on the inside of her lip. Later, she addressed the situation on social media saying that, “emotions were high,” and that she made an, “unnecessary,” call to involve law enforcement.

“Gervonta did not harm me or our daughter,” she wrote in a social media post. Davis has always maintained his innocence in the situation.

That isn’t the only legal situation that Davis settled this month. On May 7, Davis was sentenced to 90 days of home detention and three years of probation stemming from a 2021 hit-and-run incident, TMZ reported at the time. 

According to the report, Davis cut a plea deal with prosecutors on Feb. 16 after pleading guilty to four traffic offenses. He was originally hit with 14 differeny charges in the case after he ran a red light and made contact with another car. The other driver was a pregnant woman. Davis was accused on staring her down before fleeing the scene in his 2020 Lamborghini Urus. 

On top of his house arrest and probation, Davis was also ordered to serve 200 hours of community service. If he was convicted, he could have been looking at a maximum of seven years and 55 days.

A laundry list of other accusations and charges have followed him over the past several years. Davis has been accused of first-degree aggravated assault in 2017 against a childhood friend. He was also in a fist-fight with a man on the street in Washington D.C. in 2018, and was arrested on assualt/battery charges against his then-girlfriend in 2020.

Through all of this, Davis (29-0) shows no signs of cracking inside the boxing ring — and against some stiff (and undefeated) competition, too. His top two recently defeating the previously undefeated Ryan Garcia, Davis’ next super fight is expected to be against the winner of WBC Lightweight Champion 30-0 Devin Haney, who just defeated Vasyl Lomachenko this past weekend, or against 20-0 Shakur Stevenson.