A Florida judge ruled Tuesday that famed Baltimorean and boxing champion Gervonta Davis’ ex-girlfriend can seek punitive damages against him in the latest chapter of a saga that began after an alleged altercation between the two last fall.

Judge Milton Hirsch sided with Courtney Rossel and her attorney, Richard Wolfe, saying the woman was able to seek punitive damages against her ex-boyfriend from their fight last October. Hirsch said if Wolfe prepared an order granting the motion and amending the complaint to include a claim for punitive damages within 48 hours, he’d be happy to sign it.

“Whether this will actually result in the substantial judgment that Mr. Wolfe envisions or not is something that none of us can know, and I’m not concerning myself with at this moment,” Hirsch said.

Hirsch’s ruling came after Rossel’s attorneys showed video footage of the incident between Rossel and Davis. Seven short video clips from the nightclub where Rossel was working show Davis grabbing her curly ponytail, a style similar to what she wore in court Tuesday, and pushing and directing her out of a hallway, through a staircase and the club, and into a parking garage. In the end, she was able to run away from Davis and back into the club.

“Let’s not forget: this is not some ordinary person. This is a world champion boxer who comes to a place of business where she’s working, interrupts her business in front of her employer, in front of her coworker,” Wolfe said. “It is quite disturbing.”

Wolfe said Rossel will seek $5 million from Davis. The hearing seeking punitive damages comes a week after Davis, 31, sued Rossel for over $20 million. Davis accused the woman of provoking the fight to frame and extort him just before his Netflix-streamed fight against Jake Paul, which was called off.

Richard Bales Jr., Davis’ attorney, pushed back against punitive damages, arguing that Rossel said she was not injured and spent around nine hours with Davis after the incident at her apartment, which she allegedly gave him access to.

“It involved wrongful conduct — I’m not going to dispute that — but the conduct was not egregious, outrageous and such as required for punitive damages,” Bales said.

In a lawsuit filed last fall, Rossel accused Davis of aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and other offenses after an altercation on Oct. 27, 2025, while she was working as a VIP cocktail waitress at Tootsie’s Cabaret, a popular Miami strip club.

By January, the Miami Gardens Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force were searching for Davis on attempted kidnapping, battery and false imprisonment charges related to the incident. Local authorities said they corroborated Rossel’s claims through security footage.

Davis was found and apprehended two weeks later. Online court records show Davis faces attempted kidnapping, battery and false imprisonment charges in Florida with a hearing scheduled for Wednesday. His criminal defense attorney Simon Steckel, who was at Tuesday’s hearing, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The monthslong legal battle is the latest for Davis who, just two months prior to Rossel’s claims, had battery charges dropped in a domestic dispute where another ex-girlfriend alleged he hit her in the back of the head and slapped her in the face. He remains on probation for a 2020 hit-and-run crash that injured four people, including a pregnant woman, in Baltimore.

Davis is a renowned boxer with a 30-0-1 record who, although currently living in Parkland, Florida, is originally from West Baltimore.