Quantis Graves
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Quantis Graves is an American
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 professional boxer from New Orleans, Louisiana, he is well known with his advance to the Olympic box-offs in the 201 lb division. Quantis lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
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 hit Louisiana, which caused his move to Beaumont, Texas where he is now residing. As of November 11, 2011 Quantis Graves is 5-0 professionally with a recent TKO in four rounds on 2011-06-04 versus Jamell Williams (0-3) at the Civic Center in Rayne, Louisiana, United States. He then defeated Grover Young 8-19-11 in Louisiana. Quantis weighed in at 192 lbs, making him a Cruiserweight for his weight class. Quantis Graves
Quantis Graves
Quantis Graves is an American professional boxer from New Orleans, Louisiana, he is well known with his advance to the Olympic box-offs in the 201 lb division. Quantis lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, which caused his move to Beaumont, Texas where he is now residing...

, as of November 11, 2011, is ranked 354 of 913 in the world and is ranked 85 of 197 in the United States.

Olympic career

The fast right-hander started boxing at the age of 20.
At the U.S. championships, he beat the 2006 National Golden Gloves runner-up Jordan Shimmell
Jordan Shimmell
Jordan Shimmell is an American amateur heavyweight boxer best known to win the National Golden Gloves and the US Champion at 201lbs in 2009.- Amateur career :...

 (12:11) but lost to his friend and eventual winner Deontay Wilder
Deontay Wilder
Deontay Wilder is an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning two major national titles in 2007 and for being the only American boxer to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...

(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). Deontay Wilder (born October 22, 1985 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning two major national titles in 2007 and for being the only American boxer to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Deontay Wilder
Deontay Wilder
Deontay Wilder is an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning two major national titles in 2007 and for being the only American boxer to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...

 boxes professionally at the heavyweight division and is 19-0 with 19 KOs.

Professional career


| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|5 Wins (2 knockout), 0 Defeats, 0 Draws
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|align=left| United States Calvin Rooks
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|align=left| United States Haymond Howard
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|4-0
|align=left| United States Grover Young
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|3-0
|align=left| United States Jamell Williams
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|2-0
|align=left| United States Brent Urban
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|1-0
|align=left| United States Phillip Hammac
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5 wins, 0 loses (as of 11-11-11). Two victories from technical knockout.
Quantis Graves' latest win was on November 3rd, 2011. [won 5 (KO 2) + lost 0 (KO 0) + drawn 0 = 5 Fights.
Rounds Boxed: 18, KO%= 40%]

Schedule

Quantis' next bout is 2012-01-07 against Calvin Rooks [2(0)-3(2)-1]. It is scheduled to be at the Blackham Coliseum
Blackham Coliseum
Blackham Coliseum is a multipurpose arena in Lafayette, Louisiana. It was built on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus in 1949 as the home to the then-named SLI Bulldogs, now called the Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball teams. It remained the home for the men's team...

 in Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...

.

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