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Otis Grant
BA 93
Otis Grant, BA (Leisure Studies) 93 has been a fixture of the boxing scene, both in Montreal and abroad, for many years. He is a two-time North American Boxing Federation (NABF) middleweight champion and former WBO Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World.
Following a near-fatal car collision in 1999, Otis made a remarkable recovery and reclaimed his boxing career.
Grant later began working as a counsellor at Lindsay Place High School in Pointe Claire, helping children with special needs integrate into school life. He is now the coordinator of the community learning centre at Riverdale High School and co-owns Grant Brothers Boxing in the west island with his brother Howard.
He established the Otis Grant and Friends Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the Old Brewery Mission and other community-based organizations to help the homeless, families in need and sick children.
Otis Grant, above right, at a 2008 boxing workshop in Sutton Que. Grant is a former boxing champ and current partner in Montreal's Grant Brothers Boxing Club He says: "When our professional fighters make a little bit of money, we use it to develop our amateur program for the kids."
Otis Grant on the cover of the Summer 2008 issue of the alumni magazine.
