Ireland's Taylor, who is also a five-time world amateur champion, proved to be too strong for her opponent in what was a convincing win.

Taylor, who failed in her bid to retain her title from London 2012 after narrowly losing to Finland's Mira Potkonen at the quarter-final stage of the women's lightweight competition at Rio 2016, was in dominant form at the SSE Arena in Wembley, landing a series of jabs in the first round with a raucous crowd behind her.

In a terribly one sided contest, she had her Polish opponent backtracking in the opening two rounds.

In the end the fight lasted just under five minutes, with Taylor's ferocity and speed dominating every aspect of the bout.

The referee was forced to call time on the contest when Kopinska was forced into her own corner and Taylor began to land a number of blows.

Taylor's next fight is on the undercard of the Anthony Joshua and Eric Molina fight on December 10 at the Manchester Arena and she could challenge for a world title by the end of 2017.

"I don't want to get too carried away, it was only my first fight as a pro, but I plan to do big things in this sport," said 30-year-old Taylor.

"I hope to be a multiple-weight world champion."

Double Olympic gold medallist Claressa Shields also enjoyed an extremely successful professional debut as she defeated Franchon Crews in Las Vegas in the United States last week.

The 21-year-old claimed a unanimous judges' decision win over Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight, after enjoying the most successful amateur career of any American woman.

Shields earned a total score of 40-36 on all three of the judges’ scorecards in an entertaining fight on the undercard of the Sergey Kovalev Andre Ward light heavyweight title fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.