Eddie Hearn believes Katie Taylor's showdown with Amanda Serrano next year will be career defining for one of Ireland's greatest ever sportspeople.
Taylor has transformed women's boxing over the years and her promoter feels that she deserves to headline a card at one of the world's most iconic sporting venues in Madison Square Garden.
The Bray fighter looks set to finally take on Serrano, whose sister she defeated in 2018, in New York next April after successfully defending her WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring magazine belts against Firuza Sharipova in Liverpool on Saturday night.
Hearn is hopeful that the fight will take place at MSG's main arena, which can hold over 20,000 for boxing events, rather than the theater, which only holds around 4,000.
The Matchroom boss said: "It was always the dream. She's boxed in some incredible venues. She's headlined, she's been co-main event, she's always got a tremendous reception, but I feel like now is the time, with everything that's happened in women's boxing as well, that she actually gets that moment because it will be an iconic moment.
"She's had many iconic moments, but I kind of feel like this is the one that she deserves, Serrano deserves, women's boxing deserves.
"I think everyone has worked so hard over the past few years and there's so many great fights week in week out now and I really believe that it's all because of Katie and that will be her defining moment that night."
Saturday's performance was far from the 2012 Olympic champion's greatest, but Hearn is confident that fans will see "the very best" of her when she steps into the ring with Serrano.
He added: "She won virtually every round of the fight against a tough, rugged challenger and I think you're going to see the very best of Katie when she knows and has to rise to the challenge of a Serrano.
"I'm just happy because we've seen so many fights recently fall apart because people get beat when they switch off or don't focus and that's not really in Katie Taylor's vocabulary."
Taylor knows that the fight will be one of the bouts that will ultimately define her career and her legacy.
She admitted: "I think it could definitely be one of the career defining fights for me for sure because it's a huge fight, a mega-fight, not just in female boxing but in boxing overall.
"This is a huge, huge fight. It's a super fight. These are the fights you want to be involved in as a professional boxer. To come through these fights are definitely career defining."
But the undisputed lightweight queen says she feels more pressure against her mandatory opponents than she will for the bout with Serrano.
She added: "I feel more pressure ahead of fights like this [Sharipova] to be honest like mandatory challengers. Like I said, they're almost like banana skin type opponents. I knew that I had to get through Sharipova if these big fights were going to happen next year.
"Throughout the whole fight week all people kept talking about Amanda Serrano, where I actually had a fight tonight. I had to focus on tonight.
"For the last few months obviously all I heard about was the fight with Amanda Serrano. These are the fights that I dream of. These are the fights that I live for.
"On one of the media calls, someone asked me about a trilogy and I was like we haven't even had one fight."
Serrano signed with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions earlier this year and Hearn has paid tribute to the YouTuber turned boxer for helping to promote the Puerto Rican fighter.
Hearn said: . "I know we take the mickey out of Jake Paul sometimes but genuinely he's going to bring a lot of attention to the fight as well.
"He's done a good job for Amanda Serrano. He's really increased the value of this fight. She's boxed now on Showtime co-main events, big audiences on pay-per-view, which is what we want.
"We want the fight to be as big as possible and I think we'd be doing ourselves a little bit of injustice by just doing 4,000. We don't know how big it could be."
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