Ellie Scotney became Britain’s youngest undisputed champion in the four-belt era after beating Mayelli Flores by unanimous decision at the Olympia in London.
Scotney, 28, was pushed all the way by a game Flores, who brought the WBA super-bantamweight title into the contest, but showed great ring IQ to win by unanimous decision.
A tearful Scotney was lifted into the air by trainer Shane McGuigan upon hearing the result, with one judge scoring it 96-94 and the other two seeing it much wider at 100-90.
“I can’t tell you how much of a hard fight that was, I think the scorecards didn’t give her justice – she was non-stop from the first bell,” Scotney said.
“When I tell you I had to go through so many tests to get here today. Only God brought me through.”
Scotney is the fourth British boxer – male or female – to seal undisputed status in the four-belt era after Josh Taylor, Chantelle Cameron and Savannah Marshall.
Earlier, Cameron became a two-weight world champion with a unanimous decision win over Michaela Kotaskova to claim the vacant WBO light-middleweight world title.
But it was disappointment for Norwich’s Emma Dolan who suffered a third-round knockout defeat against IBF super-flyweight champion Irma Garcia.