PRESTONPANS boxer Josh Taylor faces the biggest challenge of his professional career this weekend.

Taylor will go head-to-head with Ukraine’s former world champion Viktor Postol at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday in a final-eliminator for the WBC Super Lightweight title.

With a shot at current title holder Jose Ramirez on offer for the victor, Taylor insists he is “feeling good” and insists he has the firepower to stop ‘Ice Man’ Postol.

Taylor (pictured below during his win over another former world champion, Miguel Vazquez) told Courier Sport: “I do think I can stop him.

“I’ve only watched a bit of his footage, I’m not going to start frying my brain with what I think he’s going to do – I am more concentrating on myself and what I want to do.”

Taylor, dubbed the Tartan Tornado, has a 12-fight unbeaten professional record and the 27-year-old has long been tipped for the pinnacle of the sport by manager Barry McGuigan, himself a former world champion.

McGuigan has hailed the bout as a “major fight for world boxing” adding: “It’s going to be a fantastic night of boxing and I really think Josh will show us what he’s got.”

Taylor knows this will be the sternest examination of his career, but insists he is treating the fight the same as any other. “It’s the same job just a different day,” he told Courier Sport on Tuesday.

The 2012 Olympian added: “I know there is a lot at stake and Postol has been all over the world – he’s only lost to the guy that is the best in the world at the moment [Terence Crawford] so it would be a huge statement if I beat him and I am feeling confident.

“It’s just another fight – they are all as important as each other but I know what’s at stake here.”

Taylor is looking to make it a second career-highlight win at the SSE Hydro – the scene of not only his last fight, a second-round demolition of Winston Campos in March, but also his 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medal win.

Hundreds of fans from East Lothian and the Edinburgh area have bought tickets for the bout to cheer Taylor on.

The fighters will go face-to-face at a press conference today (Thursday) before a public weigh-in at the St Enoch Centre tomorrow.

They complete their preparations before the fight, due to get under way at about 10pm on Saturday.

Some tickets are still available from Ticketmaster, while the bout is also live on Channel 5.