Career
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.
lieutenant was on a small boxing promotion called Weekend Warriors II, promoted by Craig Thomson. Watt was shortly recognized after as the worlds first openly gay professional boxing judge.
In 2012 Watt traveled the North Island of New Zealand for project called Q12 the tour where he did audio interviews with over 70 LGBT people. The aim of the project was to archive the information for future research on what it is like to live as a LGBT Person in 2012.
Watt got first noticed on YouTube with his documentary called Radio Documantary on New Zealand Gay Youth Abuse.
Pridenz.com approach him to do only twenty interviews, however due to the popularity of the concept they was decided to turn the project into a tour. The tour originally was to travel to fourteen cities and towns in ten regions. However Gisbourne, Tauranga and Taupo were cancelled due to lack of support in the local regions.
Despite the cancelled dates, the tour itself concluded successfully.
In February 2016, Watt was one of the four judges for the ring girls beauty competition. In March 2016, announced on Facebook and Boxrec that Watt is one of there boxing matchmakers.
Watt is semi blind in the right eye by birth. Even though he is fully capable to judge, his optometrist will not clear his to drive a car.
At the age of 13, Watt was diagnosed with Hepatitis A, which was caused by contaminated water.
Even though Hep A generally last for 2 to 6 weeks, Watt got a rear strand of the virus that lasted 6 months before being cured. At the age of 15, Watt was diagnosed with Scheuermann"s disease. Watt stated for years he has been through painful physiotherapy however to this day he still has back problems.
In October 2015, Watt was diagnosed with lymphoma at the age of 23.
In February 2016, Watt announced that after going through aggressive treatment, he is officially in remission. Watt went to Westlake Boys High School However he left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career in Hospitality.
Shortly after leaving school Watt came out as gay and received much support from family and friends. Watt is the son of the singer-songwriter, Doctor Allan Charles Watt.