Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano one of biggest fights of all time – Eddie Hearn

Eddie Hearn is convinced Katie Taylor’s showdown with Amanda Serrano at Madison Square Garden “will blow the doors off women’s boxing and boxing in general”.

Taylor, the darling of Ireland, and Puerto Rico’s seven-weight champion Serrano will make history on Saturday as the first female boxers to headline at New York’s iconic venue.

Matchroom promoter Hearn told the PA news agency: “This has been billed as the biggest female fight of all time, but actually it’s one of the biggest fights of all time.

“I’m so confident in the fight itself that if it’s the fight I’m absolutely convinced it will be, it will blow the doors off women’s boxing and boxing in general.

“It will just be the start of so many big, major fights for females.”

Saturday’s match-up, described by Hearn as “a historic game-changer”, has been years in the making, ever since London 2012 gold medal winner Taylor turned professional in 2016.

It was initially scheduled for May 2020 in Manchester, but was scuppered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Undisputed lightweight champion Taylor, 35, will put all four belts on the line – WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF – against 33-year-old Serrano, the unified featherweight champion, who has held nine world titles across seven different weight divisions.

The winner will be universally accepted as the best pound-for-pound female boxer on the planet.

“It’s the undisputed champion against a seven-division champion. It’s kind of like the Mayweather-Pacquiao of women’s boxing,” Hearn said.

“But also, I feel with the emergence of women’s boxing, this is raising the bar to a level that will allow all those other big fights to become bigger.

“It will inspire a new generation of women fighters as well, not just at grassroots level, I’m also