The talking is finally over and Liam Cameron and Ben Whittaker are just hours away from their eagerly awaited rematch.

On Sunday evening, the light heavyweights will fight at Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena. Sky Sports will broadcast the event.

Six months ago, the pair met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cameron, 23-6-1 (10 KOs), seemed to be gaining control of a nip and tuck fight when an ugly tumble over the top ropes brought a premature end to the fight and denied him him the chance of securing a life changing victory. Instead, the Sheffield man had to settle for a technical draw.

The return is now just hours away and the 35 year-old has a pretty simple way of getting himself in the right frame of mind to complete the job he started last October.

“I think of bad things,” he told Sky Sports after Saturday’s weigh in.

Cameron has been a good natured, laid back participant throughout a complicated, convoluted build-up but he gave off a different air as he went through the motions at the ceremonial showpiece.

He has clearly had enough of answering the same set of questions and playing the role of the brave underdog who has dragged himself off the floor to compete with a man who has been touted as the future of British boxing.

Cameron doesn’t struggle to make the light heavyweight limit but weigh in day had still clearly altered his mood. There was a cold look in his already dark eyes and menace in his voice as he completed a long week of formalities.

“Didn’t you watch me outboxing him for three rounds?” he curtly answered when asked if he needs to take Whittaker into the second half of a rough, tough fight in order to be successful.

“He were the golden boy. They were gonna favour him over there. I were just coming there to get beat on paper. If it’s a draw in Saudi when the big guys are fighting, what does that tell you?”

Cameron may be comfortable at the weight but the same may not be true of Whittaker, 8-0-1 (5 KOs). The 27 year-old was late to the official 10am weigh in and although he made 175lbs, he had no room to play with.

Instead of being angered by being made to wait around, Cameron welcomed the delay, seeing it as a sign of Whittaker needing every possible moment to boil his 6ft 3in tall frame down to weight.

Rather than allowing doubt to creep into his mind during the crucial final hours before the first bell, Cameron seems to be gaining in belief.

“He’s getting smaller isn’t he? It’s like the last fight. He got smaller and smaller,” he said before giving a definite but short answer when asked for a final prediction.

“Late.”