BOXING: Commonwealth Games champion Shelley Watts is one fight away from a Women's World Championship boxing medal after outpointing Gulzhaina Ubbiniyazova in Jeju, South Korea.

The lightweight was too strong for the Kazazkhstani fighter on Thursday night to continue her dream run in 2014.

Watts started off the bout slow but worked her way into the contest as the rounds went on. At times Ubbiniyazova moved around the ring to avoid attacks and distanced herself to engage in minimal contact. Watts the aggressor eventually wore her down, found her mid-to-short distance and attacked with a variety of punches to the body and then the head.

Watts domination and quality punches were reflected on the judge’s scorecards with the bout being scored 39:37, 40:36 and 40:36.

"We had watched my opponent's previous bout yesterday and knew she was a mover, who did not like staying in range or in long exchanges, so our tactic was to close the distance down and attack her body and finish to her head with fast exchanges," Watts said after the bout.

"She got away from me a few times but once I found my range, I felt comfortable. I felt good, and not as tired as the first bout, so I had definitely blown the cobwebs out from my rest since the Commonwealth Games."

The 27-year-old from Laurieton, on the mid-north coast of NSW, must recover quickly from her win before facing Yana Allekseevna from Azerbaijan at 1730 AEDT on Friday, for a place in Saturday's semi-finals on Friday afternoon.

Watts is on the opposite side of the draw to Ireland's reigning Olympic and world champion Katie Taylor and world No.2 Sofya Ochigava of Russia.

The superstar pair meet in the quarter-finals in a repeat of the London Olympic final after tournament officials controversially opted against seeding contestants.

Sydney middleweight Kaye Scott is out after losing on points to China's Qian Li, who is ninth in the AIBA rankings for the 75kg middleweight division.

AAP and Boxing Australia