New York can be a tough place to succeed.

Away from the bright lights and glamour, New Yorkers are hard-working, busy people who don't hand out undeserved praise.

It is the type of place where reputation counts for little and actions speak far louder than words - the perfect place of the rebirth of unified and Ring Magazine junior featherweight champion Ellie Scotney.

"That just sounds like my upbringing," Scotney (11-0) told The Ring.

"That's where I've come from. It's just how grounded we are and I think when I've always got that behind me, I'm certain my feet will always be where they are. I feel like I'll never get carried away in the moment. Not looking ahead, not looking behind, just being what I need to be in that time I'm in."

Scotney outclassed Mexico's long-reigning WBC titleholder Yamileth Mercado at Madison Square Garden on July 11. The 10-round unanimous decision victory saw her add the famous green and gold belt to her own IBF, WBO and Ring titles.

Headlined by the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano trilogy, the Most Valuable Promotions event attracted a capacity crowd to 'The World's Most Famous Arena' and around six million viewers watched the action on Netflix.

Many may not have been aware of the 27-year-old Londoner beforehand but will tune in hoping to see her next time.

Scotney's first appearance as a MVP fighter couldn't have gone any better.

"It was like, 'Well Ellie, here's the stage, the arena and fight you want.' I’d literally wanted that fight for years. I wanted to be on Katie and Amanda's card since the first fight they had. I wanted to box in New York," she said.

"I wanted the biggest stage and I got everything. I knew from the minute it was all set that it was on me now and I love that idea."

The first fight week sighting of Scotney came as she sauntered along the street with her brothers.

"It feels just like home," Scotney said.

She kept that same attitude as the biggest night of her life drew closer. Rather than landing in America as a caricature of herself, spouting cliches and acting differently, Scotney was herself.

From the moment they first expressed an interest in signing her, MVP assured Scotney they were investing in the person rather than just a fighter. The knowledge she didn't need to play a role meant although she was around an entirely new group for the first time during fight week, Scotney felt perfectly at home from the minute she checked in at the hotel.

The days since the fight have been far more of a whirlwind.

"It all genuinely just felt normal," she said. "It was so weird. It was like I'd forgotten I'd been on a plane and forgotten the time difference. It was weirding me out a little bit, how calm I was.

"Even now I still feel that calmness and I'm like, 'When is this going to change?'

"I was saying that to my mum, that I feel like I know where I am now as a person. I feel like where I've grown in faith, I'm so sure of who I am and where I need my clarity from that I'm just me. I don't need that arm around me or anything like that.

"I’m just calm because I know everything is God's timing and at God's speed so I'm just content with who I am and where I'm at."

After the ceremonial weigh-in, Scotney took her food up to her room.

She gave up on connecting her phone to the television and in-between packing for her flight home the next day, settled on half heartedly watching a re-run of Forrest Gump and looking out of the window towards the Garden, just a block away.

There were no nerves or fight talk. Just the occasional laugh of excitement at the platform she had been given.

Scotney isn't superstitious but does notice signs that things are meant be. On her way to the airport for her flight to America she passed underneath an advert for 'Unified Business'. Another billboard claimed that their product or service was 'supersonic', the name of her ring walk song.

Before the fight, she even received a notification that her favourite fighter, bantamweight great Orlando Canizales, had posted that he was looking forward to watching his 'favourite woman fighter Ellie Scotney'.

Everything fell into place.

"It shocked me because I felt like it never overwhelmed me, which it could have," she said.

"It was only until Amanda and Katie were ring walking that I got goosebumps. I turned around to my brother, Michael, and I said, 'That's mad. I boxed here.'

"Sometimes you can overthink it and put too much pressure on yourself and I tend to do that. This time I sat back and I was like, 'Ellie, you love this and even better than that, you're doing it at Madison Square Garden and the world gets to see.'

"I stripped it back to that and the main thing I took was that I was going to enjoy it. It's probably the one time where I carried that mindset in and it's the calmest I've ever been. It's weird how you can say you're going to enjoy something but be so calm as you’re enjoying it."

If Scotney was calm, her mum certainly wasn't. April made the trip over from London to be at ringside as she is at every one of her daughter's fights.

"She said, 'I don't know how I got through it, El.' My sister said she had to give her a little shake up before the bell because she was folding or something," Scotney laughed.

"It was funny because they were sitting with Katie's mum and Katie's mum said to me after, 'I thought I was bad when I watched Katie but your mum went white.'

April is Scotney’s biggest fan but usually also her harshest critic. This time, she struggled to find fault.

"Do you know what? It was probably the one performance where she was like, 'You did it, Ell,' Scotney said.

"She keeps laughing. I can't tell how many times she's watched it."

Scotney has always drawn praise for her technical ability but casual fans have only been exposed to her outside of the ring through rinse-and-repeat promotional videos or brief press conference appearances. She isn't the type to call opponents out, nor scream and shout so has stayed under the radar.

Those who know Scotney away from the ring have been left baffled by the fact that at a time when countless hours and hundreds of thousands of pounds are dedicated to turning somebody into a fan favourite, more imagination wasn't put into someone with the natural ability to cross over.

Since the fight, Scotney has received plenty of plaudits for her performance but the way she handled the week and interacted with media and staff seems to have cemented MVP's belief: they have a potential star on their hands.

It has taken MVP less than three months to grasp what should have been obvious for the past five years.

Scotney may have been 3500 miles from her beloved Catford but - boxing wise at least - she has found her home.

"I think that's exactly the truth of it, isn't it?" Scotney said.

"The way MVP sold me when they promoted it was that they had the idea that they could build me into what - God willing - I will go on to become.

"But I feel like I didn't only properly announce myself to them, I re-announced myself to people that should have already known me.

"For someone to say you're a good fighter, that's good. But to value you as a person and comment on that, I think that carries the most weight. I think my mum was more proud in that sense, that I got that across.

"MVP literally give me a blank page and said, 'Ellie, go write your story' and I felt like that's exactly what I did.

"I just went in, was just myself and I managed to get that across, one, in my boxing and two, in the way I carried myself."