Benjamin Watt

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Name: Benji Watt
Birth Name: Benjamin Thomas Watt
Hometown: Glenfield, New Zealand
Birthplace: Greenlane, New Zealand
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Benjamin Thomas Watt (born 13 June 1992 in Greenhithe, New Zealand) is the world's first openly gay professional boxing judge. He is also a Boxing Commentator for Gladrap Youtube channel.

Watt started his career in boxing as an editor of Boxrec.com for New Zealand. In April 2015, the Australian Boxrec editors forward Watt onto the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association after he expressed interests of becoming a referee and a judge. Watt spent four months training as a shadow judge and doing corporate boxing fights. In August 2015, Watt judged his first two professional fights of his career. It was on a small boxing promotion called Weekend Warriors II, promoted by Craig Thomson. Watt was shortly recognized after as the world's first openly gay professional boxing judge.

In April 2018, he started working with the sports youtube channel, Gladrap, working in multiple projects including Sports commentating, interviewing and even having his own talk show called "What's what with Benji Watt". It was here on Gladrap where he was given the name Mr Controversy.

Promoting

In July 2016, Watt announced that he will be promoting his first boxing event called Fight 4 Charity. The event will in a selection of up and coming boxers, including bouts like Nailini Helu vs Ange Davis for the New Zealand and Asia Pacific Title, Zane McNab vs Nick Hikuroa, Kendall Cooper vs Jonathan Taylor and many more.

In June 2019, Watt co-promoted an event alongside Vasco Kovacevic of Red line Combat Academy and Terry Bachelor of Mayhem Boxing. The event featured Conrad Lam vs Semisi Kalu and first LGBT New Zealand born boxer Diane Beazley vs Ashley Campbell.

Personal life

He is part of Ngāpuhi Iwi (tribe) and his Hapū is (subtribe) is Te Popoto and Te Ngahengahe. He is the descendent of Hone Kingi Kaihau and Henareta Tikinui of the Mokonuiarangi Marae.

Gladrap

In April 2018, Watt joined the youtube channel called Gladrap, a boxing filming and interview channel. He started off as a commentator on a corporate boxing fight between Joseph Luafalealo vs George Iosefa-Ale. It was here where he started developing his name as "Mr Controversy" where he said "I remember when I was nineteen I was on Grindr on a daily bases" during the fight on commentary. A few months later Watt started doing boxing interviews with Gladrap channel, first one being with Jerome Pascua on his fight upcoming fight with Andrei Mikhailovich. In July 2018, Watt began his own talk show on Gladrap channel called "What's What with Benji Watt". The show starring Watt with a variety of guests, talking about current affairs with boxing, over Google Hangouts. The show was shortly cancelled after the 4th episode due to lower numbers. The show started up again in October 2019, but this time in a studio with better equipment with a hint a comedy, effects and shorter episodes. It was said in the 4th episode of the new season that Watt was also editing the show as well.

Awards

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