Ellie Scotney’s heart skipped a beat as she sat quietly at home and scrolled through Most Valuable Promotions’ contract proposal.

As the 27 year-old read through the various details, purses, dates and assurances, she felt a weight steadily lift from her shoulders but one of the very first words on page one of what she hopes will be the final contract she ever signs made her happier than any number could have done.

Valuable.

“It was like I wrote it and they added an extra few chapters on,” the WBO, IBF, IBO and Ring Magazine super bantamweight champion told The Ring.

“That's the truth of it. It's hit me in waves and probably hasn't hit me properly even now. I come home the other day and I'm not a person that cries like that, but I just cried where I'm like, 'Wow, life's good.’

“To feel how I do now compared to how I felt three or four months ago, it is literally night and day.

“Normally I'm so used to looking at contracts and I'm like, ‘Ah, I’m stuck in that for that amount of time.’

“I looked at this contract and I thought, ‘Wow, I am safe.’

“The whole feeling is like I'm part of something and I never had that anywhere else.

“It's weird. It's mad.”

Scotney, 10-0, will get the partnership with MVP underway on July 11th. She will be given a major role on the undercard of the third fight between undisputed super lightweight champion, Katie Taylor, and multi-weight champion, Amanda Serrano, at the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, as she faces WBC titleholder Yamileth Mercado in a big super bantamweight unification fight.

This won’t be a one-off opportunity to tick off a bucket list moment. It will be the first in a series of pinch me moments. Scotney will play a major role in MVP’s takeover of female boxing. She will be given the opportunity to headline events and whilst the majority of her career will now be spent in America, there are also plans to bring her back to Britain.

MVP’s relationship with streaming giant, Netflix, also means that the world will get to meet the charismatic Londoner.

Scotney’s contract with Matchroom ended after her win over New Zealand’s IBO champion, Mea Motu, in January. For the first time in her professional career, she found herself without a promoter.

Entering free agency is an exciting time for any athlete but it can also be extremely humbling. They may have an idea of what they are worth and what they want but they soon find out exactly just how highly other people value them and their skills.

As the unified and Ring Magazine super bantamweight champion Scotney entered free agency in the best possible bargaining position but it was still a relief when MVP made their interest abundantly clear.

Matchroom had the right to match any offers Scotney received but chose not to do so and she was free to become a big part of MVP’s stable.

Scotney was happy with the terms and career path MVP laid out for her but finding out that somebody outside of her circle had recognised her achievements and potential was the most pleasing aspect of the whole deal.

“It is the recognition. It is talking to someone, and it's like, ‘Wow, they think I'm worth that as a person.’ You're not just a fighter to them,” she said.

“They look at you as the person behind the fighter and it's a new world and I weren't used to that.

“When you actually stripped it back, it is probably the recognition which has given me the bounce back in my step. Of course, we all look at the financial side but when people look at you and they value you - which I haven't had - it’s been like, ‘Do you know what? I've done this only backing myself and now I've got people backing me. I imagine the power that's going to be.’

“I’m not just there to fill a card. I’m not just there as another fighter. I'm there as one of their attractions and they'll build me into the star that normally comes with being a world champion.

“So it's a whole new world. It's a fresh start and one that I've been waiting on.”

No sooner had a deal been agreed than Scotney found herself filming promotional videos in Catford high street and boarding a flight to New York to meet MVP co-founders, Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian in person.

MVP have made it very clear that this is much, much more than a power play to get Scotney’s titles under their banner. They are investing in her as a person and she believes that it was important to introduce herself properly and let MVP know who they have added to their roster as well as what type of fighter.

As talented a fighter as Scotney is, she is also one of the most popular characters in British boxing but only those who know her get to see her true personality. There is a definite feeling that a major trick has been missed by shoe horning Scotney into the same cookie cutter promotional material as every other fighter.

Within ten fights, Matchroom manoeuvred Scotney to three world titles and the Ring Magazine belt but precious few people outside the small boxing bubble are aware of her or her achievements.

There have been no one sided showcases, every fight has been hard and there have also been long periods of inactivity. Whilst other female fighters around Britain have been pushed relentlessly, Scotney would disappear from view for months and then reappear for another hard fight on another undercard a few months later.

Scotney has professional dreams but she also has grand plans to help her family.

Until fairly recently, she thought - or hoped - that her boxing would do her talking for her but she has slowly begun to realise that it is going to take more than that if she is going to accomplish both goals.

She will never one to blow her own trumpet - at times to her own detriment - but Scotney has started to pop up increasingly regularly on podcasts and broadcasts and is a regular guest commentator on BBC Radio. Whisper it, but she may even have started to enjoy it. A little bit anyway.

MVP may be investing heavily in female boxing but if Scotney is to reach the heights that she and her new team believe she can, she knows that will also have to do her share and push her own cause more outside of the ring.

She sees the deal as a chance to not only introduce herself to a brand new audience, but reintroduce herself to British fight fans.

“I’ve always valued myself on my fighting and I always say your fighting represents your character,” she said.

“I feel like that's kind of shown but I'm looking forward to people getting to know the real me. I feel anyone I have a conversation with, I like to know that when they leave me they feel like, ‘Cor, I feel like I've known her forever.’ If I can bring that onto a stage where it won't just be a one-on-one chat, where it's a whole new gathering and that's what I'm looking forward to.

“It's about people not just knowing me as a fighter, but Ellie as a person because she's there too. It's just I feel like that got lost. “

Scotney lives and breathes the sport but had begun to worry that her efforts were going to go unrewarded. That has all changed. From now on, she will be working to a plan and knows that as long as she keeps winning, she will be given the chance to accomplish her dreams both in and out of the ring.

“Let's be honest, six months ago I was thinking I'm going to have to get a job. The purpose of why I do what I do is I've always said that I want to better my mum before I better myself,” she said.

“I come home and I looked and I thought, ‘Do you know what? I'm not going to be able to do that’ and that hit me more than any of the other stuff because you rethink everything.

“From when I was 17, boxing’s been my vision. It’s been, ‘This is going to change. I can get something out of this’ and that kind of got stripped back and it was like, I've got to rethink this. So it's been a case where it's gone full circle. Now it all makes sense.

“God’s timing is better than I could do myself,” she continued. “And that's been the pivotal moment for me. It’s almost my testimony where I'm like,’Wow, how bad it was then but look how good it is now.’

“That's how I just feel. I just feel blessed.”