Custio Clayton (born October 5, 1987) is a Canadian

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who has held the WBA- NABA

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title since 2019. As an amateur he is a six-time Canadian national champion and represented Canada at the

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, where he reached the quarter-finals.

Amateur career

Clayton began training at his great-uncle's gym, City of Lakes Boxing Club in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and fought his first amateur bout at the age of 11. He took a break from boxing for two years at the age of 17 to finish high school. The 24-year-old Nova Scotian Olympian Clayton, along with

Simon Kean Simon Kean (born 11 January 1989) is a Canadian professional boxer. As an amateur he qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics along with countryman Custio Clayton. Amateur career Kean was a semi-finalist and third-place finisher in the super-heavy ...

, were the only two Canadian male boxers to qualify for the

. Clayton was a quarter-finalist and 5th-place finisher at

at the 2012 American Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament. Five spots were available for qualification at welterweight and Custio qualified over the other quarter-finalists since his loss was to the eventual winner

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. Qualification being dependent on how the winning opponents performed in later rounds was controversial and will not be used in future Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics (results) Clayton became the first Canadian to win a boxing bout in 8 years when he beat

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in the opening round. Then he beat the Australian Cameron Hammond, before losing to Fred Evans in the quarterfinal.

Professional career

Clayton officially joined the Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) in November 2014. The Nova Scotia boxer has indeed accepted a contract with a maximum duration of three years, the latest of which is an option. His first professional fight will also take place on 19 December at division

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in gala undercard featuring

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. On 28 January 2020, Clayton scored an eighth-round knockout of Diego (El Chacarero) Ramirez and retain his WBA title.

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clayton, Custio 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Black Nova Scotians Canadian male boxers Black Canadian boxers Welterweight boxers Light-middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Canada Boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada