Dante Mario Craig (born August 20, 1978) is an American former

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

who competed from 2001 to 2016. As an amateur, he competed at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

in Sydney, in the

welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify th ...

. Craig was born in

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. He took up boxing at the age of 12 to defend himself against an older bully, and won a National Junior Olympic championship by age 15.

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* * 1978 births Living people American male boxers African-American boxers Olympic boxers of the United States Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers from Cincinnati Welterweight boxers 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{US-boxing-bio-stub