HARD TO PLEASE
IT’S SAID that if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. But even for somebody who loves their job as much as Ellie Scotney, some days can be a grind. This wasn’t one of those days.
“I keep getting little flutters of excitement,” Scotney told Boxing News as she happily walked around a sunny Canary Wharf hours before stepping into the ring to face Maria Roman in May. “That’s a good thing though. There was nothing last time.”
The excitement wasn’t just because she was on her way to get her first ‘proper coffee’ in weeks.
At times the 24-year-old Londoner has had to be as brave outside the ring as in it but today - apart from a slight scratch left by an eyebrow technician and the dilemma of picking a catchy walkout song - the only thing Scotney had to worry about was her boxing and that is when she is at her happiest.
“That’s something I’ve learned in this game,” Scotney said as she wandered back to the hotel “You
