Paul Butler has vowed to end the career of Stuart Hall when they clash in Liverpool at the end of the month.
The pair meet in a WBA world bantamweight title eliminator on September 30 and Ellesmere Port's Butler is confident of a convincing win.
Butler, 28, is the 1/5 favourite with Sky Bet to win the fight, with Hall 7/2 and the draw 22/1.
Butler took the IBF crown from Hall - who was the defending champion - in June 2014 and their rematch gives the pair the chance to get into pole position to once more land a world title, with a route to the WBA belt that's in the hands of Doncaster's Jamie McDonnell, who is set for his own rematch with Liborio Solis.
The Ellesmere Port ace (24-1, 13KOs) believes he has got under Hall's skin already. having baited him on social media last week, telling the Darlington man to 'enjoy your last month training as a professional boxer', with 37-year-old Hall (21-5-2, 7KOs) responding by blocking his rival on Twitter.
"I’ll be putting it to bed and ending his career on September 30," said Butler.
"It was a great fight last time and I believe I can win in better fashion. It’s a fight I’m buzzing for.
"It was man against boy last time and I still pinched it off him, now it’s man against man this time – I’m a fully-fledged bantamweight now.
"I don’t believe he’s gone anywhere since the first fight and I’m learning every day under trainer Joe Gallagher, I’ve come on leaps and bounds.
"The winner will be in a great position to fight either McDonnell or Solis. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, it’s down to me now. Stuart Hall is in the way, but I believe I’ll deal with him and then we’ll move onwards and upwards.”
