BEN WHITTAKER and Liam Cameron have finally settled their public rounds dispute, just days before their eagerly anticipated rematch.
The build-up to the pair's second showdown on Sunday has been dominated by a row over the duration of their domestic dust-up.
Cameron, 34, from BOXXER's bout agreement overseer.
Whittaker and promoter Ben Shalom, however, campaigned for the fight to be a ten-round contest just like their first meeting.
Cameron and promoter initially dug their heels in but revealed they'd be open to shortening the fight if there was appropriate compensation.
And that compensation has seemingly come Cameron's way as it was officially confirmed on Thursday that the fight would be contested over ten rounds.
Cameron hinted on Friday that he'd received a big chunk of change for the mix-up by tweeting a mock-up photo of himself surrounded by money in a bank vault.
Olympic silver medallist first locked horns with Cameron last October on the undercard of the first undisputed light-heavyweight title fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
The fight, controversially, ended in a technical draw as Whittaker was left unable to continue after both men .
Cameron believes Whittaker took the easy way out by not continuing the contest and has vowed to make him pay.
He told Sky Sports: “They're hard 12-rounders. I've been there before.
“They're hard. He was struggling for four rounds, five rounds [in the first fight]. We'll see.
“I was outboxing him at times. As an amateur guy, what's a standout amateur, I shouldn't be getting to him for at least six rounds but I got to him straightaway.
“So that was quite surprising. “He's going to feel it this time.”
Whittaker, meanwhile, is determined to silence his vocal detractors, saying: “Nobody wants blips to happen.
“But I'm happy it happened in a sense where it's brought me back to earth.
“It's brought me back to a position where I know the real me.
“I'm cutting the distractions out. “Now I'm just back to me, back to my and that's when the best me will show.”
