{"id":102250,"date":"2025-08-30T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102250\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:49:11","slug":"ellie-scotney-close-to-landing-dream-matchup-for-undisputed-fight-by-end-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102250\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Scotney close to landing dream matchup for undisputed fight by end of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 The wheels are in motion for The Ring’s junior featherweight champion Ellie Scotney<\/a> to land her dream undisputed title fight before the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

The undefeated star has claimed The Ring, WBO, WBC and IBF titles in just 11 fights as a professional since turning over in 2020.<\/p>\n

The only missing piece of the jigsaw is the WBA title held by Mexico\u2019s Mayelli Flores Rosquero<\/a>, who claimed the belt via a hard-fought 10-round decision against defending champion Nazarena Romero in May.<\/p>\n

Now talks are already underway to match Scotney and Flores Rosquero, The Ring’s No. 3-rated junior featherweight, in a showdown for all the belts later this year \u2014 and they are understood to be progressing well.<\/p>\n

Scotney, along with a number of other high profile women, has signed a deal with Jake Paul<\/a>\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions who delivered her the Mercado unification for her first fight under the banner.<\/p>\n

And now it looks like her second outing with MVP could be the undisputed fight she has always dreamed of.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is definitely going to get out before the end of the year,\u201d her trainer Shane McGuigan told The Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After unifying the IBF\/WBO titles with a points win over Segolene Lefebvre in April 2024 – her only appearance last year – Scotney remains on course for a three-fight year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is to fight Flores next for undisputed. We have always planned on becoming undisputed as quickly as possible. So hopefully we can get that staged before the end of the year,\u201c McGuigan continued.<\/p>\n

Scotney\u2019s one-sided victory over Mercado<\/a> took place at Madison Square Garden as part of a huge all-women event headlined by Katie Taylor\u2019s victory over Amanda Serrano in their trilogy bout.
It is unclear whether Scotney, from Catford, England, will get home advantage against Flores although it seems unlikely it will land on the Paul-Gervonta Davis<\/a> undercard, McGuigan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJake Paul against Tank is November 14 in Atlanta but I think they might have allocated all the undercard slots already,\u201d he added. \u201cSo it could be in December.<\/p>\n

\u201c[MVP co-founder] Nakisa Bidarian is in town next week so we will then figure out where we go. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be great if they could stage a show in the UK because they\u2019ve got a lot of fighters from over here who need to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Scotney add the WBA belt to her collection in 2025 it would cap a remarkable year for the 27-year-old who had struggled for momentum with her previous promoters Matchroom.<\/p>\n

She boxed only once in 2024 but beat Mea Motu in January before seeing off Mercado in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust look at how stagnant her career was before,\u201d McGuigan said. \u201cIt was stop-start.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s just often had an unfortunate set of circumstances where fights have been knocked back or there have been injuries to her or her opponent and fights have been cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it’d be great to get some momentum out of that and actually get her out three times in the one year.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Flores Rosquero (13-1-1, 4 KOs), McGuigan added: \u201cWell she throws about 1,000 punches in every fight so it\u2019s not going to be an easy night, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 The wheels are in motion for The Ring’s junior featherweight champion Ellie Scotney to land her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-102250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}