Aaron McKenna and Liam Smith are cut from the same cloth. Both are no-nonsense, uncompromising fighters who come from successful fighting families.

On Saturday night, the middleweights will meet on the undercard of the grudge match between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn. The event will stream live on DAZN PPV.

McKenna, 19-0 (10 KOs), holds former WBO super welterweight champion, Smith, and his successful brothers - Paul, Callum and Stephen - in high regard but will park that respect to one side this week.

The 25 year-old Irishman knows that he couldn’t have been given a better platform to show the world what he can do.

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“I remember watching him and his brothers throughout the years,” McKenna told The Ring. “They're all very good fighters and they're all very respected people in the UK. They come from a respected family and it reminds me of me and my brothers.

“We're all boxers as well and me and Stephen [a 15-1 super welterweight] intend to do the same - become world champions - and it's definitely a good story.

“It's great now that I've got my opportunity to finally get a fight like this of this magnitude.

“I've been looking for a fight like this since I was 21, 22 and it's just great now that I've got my opportunity and it's very good that it's in a football stadium. I'm a big football fan as well. I support Liverpool but it's going to be class walking out at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with nearly 70,000 people. It's going to be fantastic.”

Not many British fighters possess Smith’s skillset.

His high guard, educated, aggressive style and accurate body punching pose a fairly unique challenge on these shores and, over the years, scores of unknown Mexican pressure fighters have made their way across the Atlantic and returned home with the scalps of promising fighters.

Faced with the type of clever aggression they rarely encounter, British fighters tend to get away from the things that have made them successful and waste too much mental and physical energy worrying about taming their opponent rather than imposing themselves.

McKenna isn’t going to alter a single thing. During his years spent living and training in California and has spent hundreds of rounds working with relentless Hispanic fighters and knows what works. He isn’t going to allow Smith to bully him into changing his style on the biggest night of his life.

McKenna is going to meet fire with fire.

“That’s it. That’s the plan,” he said. “I think it's going to be fight of the night, both of us are going to come out from the first bell and meet in the middle of the ring and it'll come down to who wants it more and I think it's going to be a war.

“A lot of Mexicans and Americans come over to the UK and they win because not many of the UK fighters have seen that style or are used to it.

“I've seen them all and even at 25 years old I'm very, very experienced, I've been in with a lot of world champions with sparring and I'm going to use all that experience now on the night.”

This weekend’s main event has gathered so much momentum and garnered so much publicity that it has cast a large shadow over a competitive undercard.

From the moment it was announced, the fight between Smith and McKenna looked like it had the potential to steal the show.

The fight makes perfect sense for McKenna but it represents a make or break moment in Smith’s career.

Being part of such a massive occasion will have been a major attraction to Smith but the Liverpudlian also believes that he is still more than capable of mixing with the biggest names in the division and taking on an unbeaten, hungry fighter like McKenna is a clear sign of his ambition.

McKenna wasn’t the slightest bit surprised that the fight got made but he believes that at this stage of their respective careers, the timing is much better for him than for Smith

“Not really because if he's taking this fight he fully believes he's going to win,” he said. “That's their attitude, that's the way the Smiths are so I know I'm expecting the best version of him to turn up and he believes this fight would set up bigger ones for him but I think he'll be in for a shock when he sees what I'm going to be like on the night.”