- Quantis Graves
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.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 winnerDeontay Wilder (10:20).At the trials he lost again to tall hard-punching Wilder (7:11) but beatsouthpaw James Zimmerman and favoured southpawAdam Willet 16:4 to advance to the finals where he lost to Wilder again (9:12).External links
* [http://www.usaboxing.org/86_1965.htm USA boxing bio]
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