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After becoming Britain's youngest undisputed champion, Scotney eager to start from scratch

July 31 : Ellie Scotney is relishing the prospect of building from the ground up and showing her best at featherweight, after having won everything there was to win at 122 pounds.The 28-year-old became Britain's youngest undisputed champion in the four-belt era when she beat Mayelli Flores by unanimous decision in April, after which she quickly vacated her belts and announced she would be moving up a division."It was a weird one because before I even went into that fight I knew that as soon as that was done, I would be moving up," Scotney told Reuters by video call."Holding on to 122 pounds was hard but it was for the sole purpose of being undisputed. The fact that I had to go champion to champion to champion to champion, it was like 'once I've done that, what else was there to chase?' "I'
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