Quantis Graves

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Quantis Graves (born July 29, 1982) is an American amateur boxer from Louisiana best known to advance to the Olympic box-offs in the 201 lb division.

[edit] Career

The fast righthander started boxing at the age of 20. At the U.S. championships, he beat the 2006 National Golden Gloves runner-up Jordan Shimmell (12:11) but lost to his friend and eventual winner Deontay Wilder(10:20). At the trials he lost again to tall hard-punching Wilder (7:11) but beat southpaw James Zimmerman and favoured southpaw Adam Willet 16:4 to advance to the finals where he lost to Wilder again (9:12).