New video shows Gervonta "Tank" Davis allegedly pushing his ex-girlfriend down stairs of a Miami Gardens strip club

Surveillance video shows an alleged domestic violence incident involving professional boxer Gervonta Davis and his former girlfriend, with the boxer's attorney filing a motion to dismiss the charges on Wednesday.

The incident occurred in October 2025 inside Tootsie's strip club in Miami Gardens. The video reportedly shows Davis, also known as "Tank," dragging the woman down a hall and pushing her down the stairs of the club where she works. At one point, she appears to be asking him to stop.

Davis was charged with battery, false imprisonment, and attempted kidnapping following his arrest in January. He has since been released.

During a court hearing Wednesday morning, Davis' attorney, Simon Steckel, filed a motion to dismiss, which the judge denied. Steckel claimed there is more to the story.

"The video speaks for itself. However, what you guys may or may not know is that within an hour or so after that video was made, she went home with him and spent the next 9 hours with him, with no fear, with no problems, and that's also documented in the video that we have," Steckel said.

Richard Wolfe, the alleged victim's lawyer, disputed the claim. "That's a gross mischaracterization of what happened. What happened is, as he threatened to do, he showed up at her house. She was scared like any other victim; she did what she needed to do to get out of that situation," Wolfe told CBS News Miami.

The defense claims that the former girlfriend is extorting Davis in this case 

The defense further argued that the case is an instance of extortion, claiming the woman demanded $1.1 million after the incident, documented in writing.

"We believe this is a shakedown, a shakedown by the alleged victim of Mr. Davis for money because he had a fight coming up at the time, within two weeks after this alleged incident, in which he was scheduled to make a lot of money on a fight against a guy by the name of Jake Paul. And I believe this all ties together and we're going to put this together in court before this judge and before anyone else that we have to," Steckel said.

Wolfe countered that his client was merely trying to settle the case. "There was a request to settle the case; whatever those requests were, those are what's called confidential settlement communications. They can never come into court; they are inadmissible," Wolfe said. "My client didn't ask for this, she is a victim here."

Davis' next court date is scheduled for May 14th.