Shelley Watts

{{Short description|Australian boxer (born 1987)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}

{{Infobox boxer (amateur)

| name = Shelley Watts

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| fullname = Shelley Marie Watts

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| nationality = {{AUS}}

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|10 August 1987}}

| birth_place = Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

| height = 164 cm

| weight = 60 kg lightweight division

| weight class = Lightweight

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| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport| Women's Boxing }}

{{MedalCountry| {{AUS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition| Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold| 2014 Glasgow | Lightweight}}

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Shelley Marie Watts (born 10 August 1987) is an Australian amateur boxer.{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/boxing/1030119/s_watts.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802184840/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/boxing/1030119/s_watts.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2 August 2014 |title=Shelley Watts |publisher=Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games |accessdate=10 August 2014}} Watts competed in the women's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won the gold medal.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/commonwealth-games-glasgow-2014/commonwealth-games-news/commonwealth-games-shelley-watts-australias-first-womens-boxing-champion-20140802-zzvos.html |title=Commonwealth Games: Shelley Watts Australia's first women's boxing champion |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=2 August 2014}} She was also a competitor in the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.

Watts qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, on 31 March 2016 by making the final of the 2016 Asian and Oceanian Olympic qualifying event, only to be eliminated in her first fight by Italian teenager Irma Testa.

Watts is now a lawyer. She began her law degree three years before starting boxing.{{Cite web |title=Fighting for your fairy tale: How law student Shelley Watts won Commonwealth Gold |url=https://www.collaw.edu.au/news/2017/09/26/fighting-for-your-fairy-tale-how-law-student-shelley-watts-won-commonwealth-gold |website=collaw.edu.au |date=27 September 2017 |access-date=7 February 2022}}