Scott "Dynamite" Dann (born 23 July 1974) is a British former
professional boxer
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who competed from 1997 to 2006. He held the British
middleweight
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Boxing Professional
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title from 2004 to 2005 and the Commonwealth middleweight title in 2006. As an amateur, he won the 1996
ABA Championships in the
light middleweight
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Boxing
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division.
Scott Dann was born on 23 July 1974 in
Plymouth
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Plymouth ...
, England. As a professional he won the English, British, Commonwealth, and
IBO Inter-Continental middleweight titles, and challenged
Howard Eastman
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for the British, Commonwealth and
EBU European middleweight titles in 2003, losing via third round
technical knockout
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(TKO).
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Image - Scott Dann
1974 births
English male boxers
Light-heavyweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
Living people
Middleweight boxers
Sportspeople from Plymouth, Devon
Super-middleweight boxers
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