The 28-year-old from Catford had famously promised that she would win the world title for her and she made good on it in June 2023, becoming IBF junior featherweight champion by beating Cherneka Johnson.

The morning after, Scotney took the new belt round to show her nan but only a few weeks later, the 99-year-old passed away. It was then that Scotney made a new promise: to complete the collection in her late nan's honor.

Since then, Scotney has added The Ring, WBO and WBC belts and fights to become undisputed against WBA champion Mayelli Flores on Easter Sunday at London’s Olympia. And, although Eileen is no longer there in person, the unified champion still feels her spirit.

"God bless my nan, she was here to witness my first world title," she tells The Ring.

"And it's mad, because ever since that, I still go to my nan's and do a little ritual.

"I'll go into her room, talk to her and I'll probably sound a bit mad saying that but that’s what I do. It’s only a five minute walk from mine and my uncle lives there now.

"I go into the room and chat to her. I always go the weekend before my fight, it keeps me grounded and gives me strength.

"And, God willing I win the last belt on Sunday, I'll take that round for her too and show her that I completed the collection like I told her I would. There's one left to complete the promise I made."

But devout Christian Scotney admits that the timing of the fight, on Easter Sunday, meant she had to make one very important call before accepting.

"I rang my pastor as soon as I found out the possible date," she added. "I wanted to check it would be ok to fight that day. But he said 'look Ellie, it's the Lord's timing, it's not yours.'

"I took a lot of strength from that. Easter Sunday is an important day of course and this time it's the day I go to church and, God willing, the day I become undisputed too.

"Pastor Joe will do the service in the morning and then he is coming to the fight to support me."

Scotney will become the youngest four-belt undisputed champion in British boxing history should she beat Flores (13-1-1, 4 KOs), the 33-year-old from Mexico City.

It has been a remarkable run for Scotney given she has picked off the champions one by one since first dethroning Johnson at Wembley Arena. Within 10 months of that victory, she outpointed previously undefeated Frenchwoman Segolene Lefebvre to claim the WBO title in Manchester, where she was also named Ring Magazine champion.

The WBC belt followed at Madison Square Garden in July, when Scotney widely outpointed long-reigning champion Yamileth Mercado with arguably the best performance of her career to date.

"I think winning them one by one will make the whole thing more satisfying," Scotney says.

"I always say holding your integrity means a lot to me and I feel like I've done that throughout my career. Even when I boxed for the European title, she was the champion.

"I've never boxed for a vacant belt and take pride in that because it's not really something that's done. Normally if I had a unification, she might have had two belts. But I've literally gone one-by-one, and no vacant titles.

"To knock it off champion to champion, it's the beauty of it. It’s the old school way and that's the way I was brought up in watching.

"So to do it that way, I take pride in that. I've got one more hurdle to clear and have no intention of letting it slip now."