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Gold Coast police are investigating an assault complaint against former world surfing champion Sunny Garcia.

Police have confirmed a complaint has been made against the Hawaiian, but no charges have been laid.

Garcia and reigning Pipeline Master Jeremy Flores, from France, were involved in a fight with a surfer at a pro surfing contest at Burleigh Heads on the weekend.

The incident happened after Garcia's 15-year-old son, who was free surfing, was allegedly threatened by another board rider.

Flores claims he was defending Garcia's son when the former world champ joined the fight.

An amateur cameraman who recorded the fight in the surf claims he was attacked by Garcia soon after, when he approached the surfer on land.

The cameraman has laid a complaint with police and has supplied them with footage which they are examining.

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) disqualified Flores from the Burleigh Heads event, and disqualified Garcia from a competition he was due to compete in at Newcastle next month.

ASP international media manager Dave Prodan told AAP the association's Rules and Disciplinary Committee convened on Monday morning to discuss the incident.

"At this point we don't know if there's going to be a decision made today, or whether or not the findings of the committee will be made public," he said.

"The rules state that surfers involved in an incident of that nature will be banned from the rest of the event if they're competing, and if they're not in that event they're banned from the next event, and I believe Sunny was committed to surf in the Newcastle event so he's been banned from that event.

"That was the immediate disciplinary action and now they've both been referred to the Rules and Disciplinary Committee which will consider further action."