Dec 26 2014

Boxing News Readers’ Awards: Female Amateur Boxer of the Year Number 4

Shelly Watts

The lightweight edged past pre-tournament favourite Natasha Jonas on a split decision at Glasgow 2014 and went on to become Australia’s first female Comonwealth Games champion.

See who is at No.5 | See who is at No.3

Don’t miss the first issue in January for Boxing News’ choices for the best amateur boxers of 2014

by Matt Christie

Matt Christie has been hooked on boxing since he picked up a copy of A Pictorial History of Boxing in 1985 as a seven-year-old. He worked as producer of KOTV from 2006 until he joined Boxing News in 2010. He has been honoured by the Sports Journalists’ Association and the Boxing Writers Association of America. In 2017 he won the Sam Kellerman Media Award in New York and The Reg Gutteridge Annual Award in London two years later. He has also written about boxing for The Guardian and the Daily Mirror and has been used by the BBC, Sky Sports, BT Sport, HBO Boxing and Talk Sport as a boxing analyst. He has been the editor of Boxing News since 2015.

by Matt Christie

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