Undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor believes a win over Amanda Serrano in their re-fixed bout in Manchester this summer would cement her place at the world's number one women's boxer.
The former Olympic champion will defend her titles against the seven-weight world champion Puerto Rican at the Manchester Arena on July 4th - after their original May meeting had to be changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This is the best fighting the best, a fight that everybody wants to see," Taylor told Sky Sports News.
"This is a very exciting fight not just for women's boxing but for boxing as a whole. This is a fight that people want to see.
"It is a dangerous fight for both of us, and career-changing for both of us. Whoever wins this fight is cemented at No 1 in women's boxing.
"I go into every fight with the same mindset, nothing has changed. She obviously does an awful lot of talking and it will be the same for this fight. But I don't get involved in anything like that."
9 July 2019; Undisputed World Lightweight Champion Katie Taylor. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
Welterweight queen Cecilia Braekhus has previously spoken about a super-fight against the Bray woman and the Norwegian's next opponent is a former rival of Taylor's, Jessica McCaskill:
"I would imagine Cecilia will out-box Jessica. But Jessica has a big punch so anything can happen there.
"I want to be involved in the biggest fights and I can't look past Serrano but, if I do come through, the fight with Braekhus is history-making. Undisputed champion vs undisputed champion - has that ever happened before?"
