ELLIE SCOTNEY has suffered an injury in training, meaning she must now wait a short while longer before entering her undisputed clash with Mayelli Flores.
The unified super-bantamweight champion was supposed to square off against Flores, who holds the WBA world title, on November 14, featuring on the undercard of Jake Paul’s exhibition match with Gervonta Davis.
This opportunity emerged shortly after her glittering performance against Yamileth Mercado, who Scotney, 11-0, dethroned in July to unify three of the four major belts in her division.
Having collected her WBC, IBF and WBO titles one by one, it only made sense, then, for the 27-year-old to face the last remaining champion at 122lbs.
With Scotney sustaining an injury, however, Jake Paul’s MVP Promotions have confirmed that she will not be heading to the Kaseya Center, Miami, next month.
Instead, her showdown with Flores is to be pushed back to a later date, while undisputed bantamweight queen Cherneka Johnson, a former opponent of Scotney’s, has taken her place on the Paul-Davis card.
Johnson, 18-2 (8 KOs), lost a wide points decision to Scotney back in 2023, but since then, the Australian has largely reinvented herself as a more complete package.
A seventh-round finish over Nina Hughes, for instance, saw the 30-year-old defend her WBA title in clinical fashion earlier this year, before she then faced Shurretta Metcalf for the undisputed crown at 118lbs this past July.
Indeed, another comprehensive stoppage, this one arriving in the ninth round, was enough to see her unify all of the major titles in her division.
Now, though, Johnson must defend her jewellery against unbeaten contender Amanda Galle, before she can then look ahead to a potential tussle with Dina Thorsland – a former unified champion and only fighter, in truth, that has a strong claim to threaten her supremacy.
