Hannah Rankin is wasting no time in her bid to win back a world title belt.

The former IBO female super-welterweight titlist was last in action back in November.

Rankin travelled to Malta and lost a unanimous decision against Patricia Berghult to succumb her crown as well as suffering defeat for the fourth time.

But she is scheduled to return on February 8 at the Lagoon Leisure Centre in Paisley, Scotland, as part of a card promoted by Sam Kynoch.

Ghanaian fighter Gifty Ankrah, 38, will be in the opposite corner. is a two-time world title challenger and is ranked at number five in the super-welterweight world rankings by the World Boxing Council.

“I’ve never been one to take the easy route and I won’t start now,” said 29-year-old Rankin, who has also been mentioned as a potential future opponent for former amateur standout Savannah Marshall, when revealing the news of her next fight.

Ankrah is a two-time world title challenger and is ranked at number five in the super-welterweight world rankings by the World Boxing Council.

Eddie Hearn, the Matchroom Boxing boss who promotes the aforementioned Marshall, said recently that he would make representation to the British Boxing Board of Control for them to make a fight between Marshall and Rankin for the British title at middleweight.