The stakes will be high on Saturday night, when Antonio Orozco and KeAndre Gibson meet in the ring at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada, headlining the second edition of the new Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN series.

Orozco (25-0, 16 KOs) and Gibson (16-0-1, 7 KOs) are both undefeated, so — barring a draw — one fighter will be saddled with his first defeat. The other will take a big step toward a world championship bout.

“That’s what we’re looking forward to, getting our title shot,” Orozco said, in a phone interview on Wednesday. “That’s the purpose, becoming a world champion.”

Orozco, 29, is currently ranked sixth in ESPN senior writer Dan Rafael’s junior welterweight rankings. He had been a mandatory challenger for unified 140-pound world champion Terence Crawford, but lost that position when his Dec. 16, 2016 fight against Fidel Maldonado Jr. was canceled the day before — Orozco was hospitalized for dehydration, from trying to make weight.

Thanks to the addition of a sports nutritionist to his team, Orozco feels a lot better heading into this fight.

“[Gibson’s] a quick guy, a great counterpuncher, he has great movement. But our style is just to break people down, and we’re going with that mentality. It’s gonna be a great night. We’re ready for whatever Gibson brings, and if any adaptations need to be made, we’ll make them.”

Antonio Orozco

“I think that was one of the missing components to my training camps,” Orozco said. “Things have gone smoother, and we feel great.”

Gibson, 27, is the underdog, but he’s feeling strong, too.

“I’m very excited, man,” Gibson said Wednesday. “Probably the best camp I’ve had, and all I can say is I’m ready for the test that’s ahead of me.”

These two fighters have taken different paths to boxing stardom. Orozco, who hails from the West Coast but spent much of his childhood in Kansas, gave a number of other sports a try first.

“As a young kid I played soccer,” Orozco said. “It was a little bit hurtful when you lose, and you lose as a team — it just wasn’t my nature, probably. Once I discovered the beautiful art of boxing, it was just something that I wanted to do.

“Boxing was almost like school in our household. I started going to the gym at seven (years old) with some friends in the neighborhood, and eventually when I started taking it serious, my dad started training me, and we went from there. My first fight was at eight years old, and we’re still here.”

KeAndre Gibson

“It’s your own personal skills against somebody else’s, and outside of that, it’s just the discipline that boxing brings. For me, it’s wonderful. It’s like life — you go through ups and downs, and you just have to push forward.”

Gibson, born and raised in St. Louis, settled on boxing from a very early age.

“My dad was an ex-fighter, my uncles were ex-fighters — I came from a boxing family,” Gibson said. “Boxing was almost like school in our household. I started going to the gym at 7 (years old) with some friends in the neighborhood, and eventually when I started taking it serious, my dad started training me, and we went from there. My first fight was at 8 years old, and we’re still here.”

Orozco has the edge in terms of experience, but Gibson, at 5-foot-10, is three inches taller. Both fighters sounded respectful of their opponent, but very confident at the same time.

“[Gibson’s] a quick guy, a great counterpuncher, he has great movement,” Orozco said. “But our style is just to break people down, and we’re going with that mentality. It’s gonna be a great night. We’re ready for whatever Gibson brings, and if any adaptations need to be made, we’ll make them.”

“My athleticism, my height and my reach, I feel like those will work in my advantage,” Gibson said. “At the end of the day I gotta do me in the fight. From what I’ve seen from Orozco, he can box at times, but pretty much to fight he likes to brawl. And I just can’t get caught up in that.”

We’ll see if Gibson can heed his own advice, especially given that Orozco’s nickname is “Relentless.”