Tremendous-welterweight world champion Hannah Rankin believes undisputed light-weight champion Katie Taylor will undergo the primary defeat of her profession in opposition to Amanda Serrano on Saturday.

Eire’s Taylor is taking over Serrano at Madison Sq. Backyard as a ladies’s struggle headlines the long-lasting New York venue for the primary time.

Rankin, who’s heading in the right direction for a mega-fight of her personal in opposition to fellow British world champion Natasha Jonas, is predicting an “epic” encounter within the Huge Apple.

“I feel it is a actually thrilling struggle, two fully completely different types,” Rankin advised Sky Sports activities Information. “I’ve Amanda successful it.

“Afterward within the struggle, I feel she’s going to come back on sturdy, however early on we will see Katie dominating.

“So I feel it may be within the second half of the struggle the place it is going to be determined and I can simply see Amanda taking the win on this one, however it may be epic.”

‘Sensible Taylor has showcased ladies’s boxing’

Rankin will turn out to be the primary girl to headline one other area with loads of boxing historical past, Glasgow’s Hydro, when she defends her WBA and IBO belts in a homecoming bout in opposition to Alejandra Ayala on Might 13.

If Rankin comes by means of that struggle, each she and Jonas, who grew to become a world champion in February, have expressed their need to unify later this yr.

That potential bout, together with Savannah Marshall’s anticipated middleweight undisputed conflict with fellow world champion Claressa Shields, are proof of the unimaginable growth of ladies’s boxing in recent times.

“I feel we should give large props to Katie Taylor,” Rankin says. “She’s actually introduced ladies’s boxing to the forefront.

“I feel each single feminine boxer on the market, all of us love Katie Taylor, she’s simply good. She’s really simply showcasing a tremendous stage of potential and expertise, and folks began to essentially get behind her, after which additionally began to take a look at extra feminine fighters. It is form of stirred folks’s curiosity within the sport, which is good.

“I’m extremely proud to be a part of that motion, to be on the forefront of change is simply tremendous thrilling and it implies that everyone seems to be you ready to see what you are going to do subsequent, so it is an thrilling place to be.”

Watch Hannah Rankin’s full interview with Jacquie Beltrao stay on Sky Information on Saturday morning at 9:35am.