NEW YORK – Jake Paul has been content with his week-long role of absorbing a hailstorm of boos normally reserved for Eddie Hearn.

The content creator and co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions remembered to play the heel role to perfection when asked to comment on Saturday’s main event between Katie Taylor and his fighter, Amanda Serrano.

“For all the Irish out here, I feel bad for y’all because this is the start of Katie Taylor’s losing streak,” Paul insisted following the official pre-fight weigh-in Friday afternoon at a jam-packed Madison Square Garden Hulu Theater in New York City. “Just like Conor McGregor.”

The claim was met with immediate disdain from the throng of Irish contingent in support of Taylor (20-0, 6KOs), the fighting pride of Bray, Ireland who attempts her thirteenth defense of at least one lightweight title.

The fight with Brooklyn’s Serrano (42-1-1, 30KOs) takes place in the main room at Madison Square Garden (Saturday, DAZN, 7:30 p.m. ET), where Taylor unified the lightweight division following a ten-round decision over Belgium’s Delfine Persoon in their June 2019 undisputed championship. The bout served on the undercard of the first unified heavyweight title fight between Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua.

Saturday’s bout with Serrano marks the first women’s boxing main event to headline at MSG, with an expected crowd of 17,000-18,000 on hand for the occasion.

Taylor has been perfect as a pro, making twelve defenses of at least one lightweight title and her last five as undisputed champion while also winning the WBO belt in a one-stop trip to junior welterweight. The two-time Olympian and 2012 Olympic Gold medalist has not lost since suffering an upset to Finland’s Mira Potkonin in the quarterfinal round of the 2019 Rio Olympics as a lightweight.

Serrano’s lone career defeat as a pro came nine years ago almost to the day. A bid to become a two-time 130-pound titlist saw Serrano drop a ten-round decision to unbeaten WBC junior lightweight titlist Frida Wahlberg on the road in Likonping, Sweden.

The 33-year-old Boricua has since rattled off 28 consecutive wins across seven weight divisions, a women’s boxing record and also the most by any Puerto Rican boxer regardless of gender. A win by Serrano on Saturday will give Puerto Rico—the first country or territory to claim a titlist in all seventeen weight divisions—its first ever undisputed champion.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox