{"id":749531,"date":"2026-08-25T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749531\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:10:09","slug":"womens-boxing-news-briton-ellie-scotney-to-face-wbc-featherweight-champion-tiara-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749531\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s boxing news: Briton Ellie Scotney to face WBC featherweight champion Tiara Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Briton Ellie Scotney will face WBC featherweight champion Tiara Brown in Arlington, Texas on 8 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotney, 28, vacated her undisputed super-bantamweight champion status in April and is stepping up a division in pursuit of becoming a two-weight world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout against 38-year-old American Brown serves as the co-main event and is one of four world title fights on the MVPW-07 card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be headlined by Elif Nur Turhan&#8217;s IBF lightweight defence against Alycia Baumgardner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait for the next chapter to begin at 126lb, where I truly believe the world will see the best of me,&#8221; Scotney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s time to make more history and become a two-weight world champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotney boasts a perfect record of 12 victories, with each of those wins coming via decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Londoner became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c3w35q6pzg3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britain&#8217;s youngest undisputed champion<\/a> in the four-belt era when she beat Mayelli Flores by unanimous decision at the Olympia in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briton Ellie Scotney will face WBC featherweight champion Tiara Brown in Arlington, Texas on 8 November. Scotney, 28,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749531","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=749531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}