Scotney can become Britain's youngest undisputed champion
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- Ellie Scotney faces Mayelli Flores on Sunday at Kensington's Olympia (live on Sky Sports from 7pm) needing a win to unify the WBA, WBO, WBC and IBF super-bantamweight titles and become Britain's youngest undisputed world champion in the four-belt era
- Shane McGuigan says he already wants Scotney to next pursue undisputed status at a third weight: "I want her to be an undisputed three-weight world champion. That's the next goal, that's the next mission and I think she's got the capabilities of doing it"
- Scotney confirmed this will be her last fight at 122lbs — she has been hanging on at super-bantamweight only to complete the undisputed collection and plans to move to featherweight, where she says "massive fights to be made" await
- Mayelli Flores is 4'11" with a "fantastic workrate" and "decent power" according to McGuigan; she has lost only once, a long time ago, and beat champion Nazarena Romero, making her a genuine threat to the collection
- Emma Dolan opens the Sky Sports televised card in her first world title fight, challenging Mexico's Irma Garcia for the IBF super-flyweight belt, and said she wants to emulate Scotney by fighting all the other champions and building a legacy
- The fight is scheduled for 10 two-minute rounds, and McGuigan conceded the sparring challenge was real: "how can you get a sparring partner at 4'11" that's as athletic, that's as strong, durable as who she's going to be boxing?"
Why it matters: A Scotney win crowns Britain's youngest undisputed champion in the four-belt era and immediately triggers a planned move up to featherweight under McGuigan's stated three-weight pursuit. The Flores fight itself is the genuine danger point — a 4'11" pressure fighter with one career loss and high punch output — and Sky Sports is also staging a second world title fight on the same bill in Dolan vs Garcia, meaning the UK women's boxing record books could be rewritten twice in one evening.
