Troy Waters

Who is Troy Waters?

Troy Weston Waters is a retired light middleweight boxer and member of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame. Waters fought for the world title three times during his career, losing to Gianfranco Rosi, Terry Norris and Simon Brown.

Waters turned pro in 1984 and won his first five professional fights including a win over future IBF super middleweight champ Chul Baek for the OPBF light middleweight title. Waters won a twelve round decision.

He won the Commonwealth title knocking out Lloyd Hibbert in the fourth round. In his 16th fight and on a nine fight win streak he fought Gianfranco Rosi in Italy for the IBF light middleweight title.

His second attempt at a world title came six wins later in 1993 when he lost to WBC light middleweight champ Terry Norris in three rounds. The second round of his fight with Norris was named The Ring's round of the year for 1993. Waters knocked down Norris in the second round, but lost by TKO in the third round.

Just two fights later Waters lost his third and final title fight to Simon Brown in Las Vegas by majority decision. In his next fight he defeated Mexican champ and former WBC welterweight champ Jorge Vaca.