HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — A fitness influencer faced charges on Friday in Broward County after police officers arrested him for dating violence in Hallandale Beach, records show.
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A woman suffered a cut and a scratch on her face, and she had bruises all over her body after Westley “Wes” Watson beat her up on Sunday and held her against her will, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
“The suspect is alleged to have physically restrained the victim, shaken her, applied pressure to her neck, thrown her to the ground, dragged her by her hair, and struck her multiple times, including forcibly slamming her head into a table,” Grace Mariot, a spokeswoman for the Hallandale Beach Police Department, wrote in a statement.
Police officers arrested Watson, 42, on Tuesday night near Holiday Drive and Layne Boulevard, and corrections booked him at the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, records show.
Watson was allegedly upset that the woman had gone to a Miami Heat game without him and wore a shirt that showed cleavage, according to the police report.
“I am going to kill you; I am going to kill your whole family,” Watson allegedly shouted at the victim during the attack, according to the police arrest report.
BROWARD COUNTY COURT: Westley Watson appears in bond court on Thursday in Broward County.
Watson’s friend, assistant, and security guard witnessed the abuse and didn’t do anything to stop it, according to the police arrest report.
“The victim is approximately 5′1 and weighs approximately 125 lbs., while [Watson] is 6′1 and weighs approximately 245 lbs., a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
Watson didn’t allow the victim to leave his house and told her he was afraid her parents or cousin would see her injuries and notify the police, according to police.
Watson had his friend allegedly go through the victim’s phone to make sure she wasn’t “cheating” and his security guard to make sure she wouldn’t leave, according to the police report.
“I can’t go to jail,” Watson allegedly told the victim, according to the police report. “If I go to jail, something bad is going to happen to you, all your friends, and your family.”
During a bond court hearing, a Broward judge ordered Watson to stay away from the victim in the case, to avoid drugs and alcohol, and to stay away from weapons or ammunition.
“This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” Mariot wrote in the statement released on Friday.
In Miami-Dade County, prosecutors had filed a case against Watson on Feb. 7 for aggravated battery and battery after he was arrested on Feb. 6 in Miami over a “violent fight” on Dec. 29 at Elev8tion Fitness, at 1625 North Miami Avenue, records showed.
Watson said “he was working out when the victim approached him wanting to fight,” a police officer wrote about the incident on Dec. 29, according to the arrest report.
The victim, who admitted to confronting Watson “because he wanted to know why he went around wanting to fight people” suffered a face fracture, a concussion, and two black eyes, according to the police officer’s arrest report.
During a bond court hearing, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer ordered Watson to stay away from the man and set his bond at $2,500.
In Broward County, Watson faced five new charges: Robbery by sudden snatching, felony battery, aggravated assault with intent to commit felony, false imprisonment, and hindering, delaying, or preventing the communication to a law enforcement officer. His bond was $115,000.
Both the Broward and Miami-Dade cases remained pending on Friday evening. Watson is a convicted felon.
In California, in San Diego County, a jury convicted Watson of robbery, burglary, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury on July 28, 2010, records show.
The conviction in San Diego County stemmed from a Nov. 27, 2009, in Carlsbad, after a conflict over marijuana, and a judge sentenced Watson to nine years in prison, records show.
“In prison, if you lose, no matter what, people are just like, you are just on an island by yourself,” Watson told Vladislav “DJ Vlad” Lyubovny about violent fights in prison, according to an interview published on Nov. 9, 2025, on YouTube’s Vlad TV channel.
Watson told Lyubovny that after a beating in prison, he decided to stop doing drugs and work on being a better person while behind bars. In 2018, he said he walked out of prison sober at 35, and he started the Watson Fitness app while on parole.
“Your life is a perfect reflection of your daily inputs,” Watson wrote in “Non-Negotiable,” a self-help autobiographical book published in 2022.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
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