Over the past eleven months, Gavin Gwynne won’t have been able to leave the house without being asked when a rematch with Cameron Vuong would take place.

The former British, Commonwealth and European lightweight champion finally has an answer.

The pair first met in a 139-pound catchweight fight in November of last year. After pressuring the younger man for 10 rounds, Gwynne looked on aghast as the judges awarded Vuong a controversial unanimous decision.

At the time of writing, Matchroom are still finalising their schedule for the remainder of 2025 but Gwynne finally has Vuong’s name on a contract and will get the chance to even the score before the year is out.

Before the first fight, Gwynne repeatedly warned Vuong and his team that they had badly underestimated him but also praised the younger man for his willingness to step up and test himself.

This time, the fight has a different edge to it.

“It is a lot more personal,” Gwynne (18-4-1, 5 KOs) told The Ring.

“This past year, I've had the year from hell. After that fight I've had a lot of sponsors drop out. I've had to go back to work for the first time in five years.

“I was working and training when I had my last fight and I realised how hard that was and where I'd come from. Going back on the building site, it was really a kick in the teeth to be honest.

“But now I'm back training full time. With this big fight, I just couldn't afford not to be training full time. It's not going to be revenge, it's going to be a repeat of the same sort of thing because everyone knows - even all social media platforms - that I won that fight and won it quite comfortably.”

Experience played a major part in the first fight.

Vuong’s fast hands and flashy combination punches had bamboozled lower level opposition but Gwynne got through the first rounds without accumulating too much damage. He refused to go into his shell and continued to plug away. He applied relentless pressure and seized control of the fight during the middle rounds.

Vuong will have learned plenty from the first fight and whilst he did appear fortunate to get the decision, he did enough quality early work to keep the fight close and also displayed unteachable heart and grit to battle through fatigue and make it to the final bell.

Gwynne believes that that knowhow will also play a major role in the return.

"Yeah, because I've been in this position before. I've been in rematches before where I've gone in and people have thought I'd lost the first fight sort of thing and then I've gone in and I've dismantled the guy,” he said.

"I think I'm in a similar position with this one, really. I've got the bit between my teeth now and I just want to go in there and just honestly put a demolition job on this guy and just go through him like a train."

A rematch has hung over Gwynne and Vuong from the moment the decision was announced in the first fight.

If the first fight was an ambitious show of intent on Vuong’s part, the rematch will have major consequences for his future. Another hard, close fight with the veteran would raise questions about just how far the 23-year-old can go whilst a loss would prove catastrophic.

Gwynne, on the other hand, has nothing to lose. He knows that his time in the sport is short and can put his all into securing the type of eye-catching, high profile win would likely secure him a final big fight.

"I think he is going to feel the pressure because when he loses to me, he's going to have to restart his career so he's going to be under all the pressure,” he said.

“I’m coming towards the end of my career. I'm not saying that this is going to be my last fight whatsoever but I'm 35 now. I'm getting on so if he's struggling with a 35-year-old, he's not going to make it, so to speak, so he's going to have to come and show up and give it all guns blazing.

“But I think that will be as I'm doing as well.”