LONDON, England - Ring Magazine champion Ellie Scotney is expected to get her shot at undisputed in January or February after she was forced to withdraw from a scheduled clash with Mayelli Flores through injury.

Scotney (11-0) currently holds the Ring, IBF, WBC and WBO junior featherweight titles so only needs to win Flores’ WBA belt in order to become the youngest undisputed champion in British boxing history.

She was slated to get that chance on November 14 as part of the undercard for Jake Paul’s exhibition contest with Gervonta Davis at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida until a back injury forced her to postpone.

The 27-year-old, who is currently No. 10 on The Ring’s pound-for-pound list, was left ‘hurt and frustrated’ by the injury but her trainer Shane McGuigan has confirmed that he expects the fight to be scheduled inside the first two months of 2026.

"We’re looking at the new year now," McGuigan told The Ring.

"I think her opponent had a mandatory but I'm pretty sure that has all been postponed so hopefully we can push the fight back to January or February.

"I think this one hurt her a little bit because of the magnitude of the event. There would have been a lot of eyeballs on the event and fight week, press conferences, being around all of that would have been an amazing opportunity for her which makes the injury even more frustrating."

Until injury struck, Scotney could not have wished for a better 2025 having successfully defended her titles against previously undefeated challenger Mea Motu in January. She then signed a career-defining deal with Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions, which kicked off with a unification clash against then-WBC champion Yamileth Mercado.

That fight took place on the memorable all-female show, headlined by Katie Taylor’s third victory over Amanda Serrano, at Madison Square Garden on July 11 and Scotney punctuated the event with a one-sided points win over Mercado to clinch the belt.

McGuigan added: "Right now this is a very frustrating time for Ellie but at the same time she had a great win against Mercado on the Netflix card, which got her great traction and the credit she deserved.

"Now she can’t get too disappointed and hung up about this injury because it’s only a few extra months and she will do the same thing again.

"She is very frustrated because she wanted nothing more than to go and become undisputed on an event like that. She could probably train at 25 or 30 per cent below optimal and going into an undisputed fight you can’t do that to yourself."