Waters boxed out of the Newport Sporting Club[1] and was the 1957 Welsh ABA champion[2] at light-heavyweight.[3]
Waters stepped up to middleweight and won the middleweight championship of Wales in 1958.[4]
An electrician by trade, he carried a nose injury into the Empire Games but successfully passed the doctors check at weigh-in to compete. Wales had already lost one of their boxers (Cedric Williams) to injury before the Games started.[5]
He subsequently represented the 1958 Welsh team[6] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales,[7] where competed in the middleweight category.[8][9]
Waters was from a boxing family, his father Walt Waters was the 1921 Welsh middleweight champion and his brother Colin Waters was a four-times middleweight champion of Wales in 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1963.[10][4]
