Sam 'The shank' Hill will line up for tonight's king in the ring competition as the man to beat.
The welterweight enters the eight man fight night as the defending champ and can follow in the footsteps of his brother in law if he wins in Auckland.
Antz 'Notorius' Nansen is Hill's partner, Baby Nansen's brother. He won the 100kg King in the ring in 2011 and 2013 and Hill wants to emulate those feats by going back to back himself, having last won the King in the Ring 68kg category the last time it was contested in 2017.
Hill has plenty of support. His partner Baby is a fighter herself. She's New Zealand's best female boxer and a couple of weeks ago fought at the iconic Madison Square Garden.
But he also has support from his two twin daughters, Leonara and Lavinne (both seven). It can be a tough juggling act. Both Nansen and Hill train twice a day for six days a week and run classes at their gym, SMAC.
It means they take turns at looking after the girls on a daily basis. While one trains the other gets the girls ready for school. While one does the girls homework the other goes for a run. While one cooks dinner and prepares lunch for the next day the other gets a quick session in.
"We've got kids, that's our first responsibility and we just make sure that our lifestyle doesn't affect our children." Hill told Newshub
"The homework needs to get done, they need to be in bed on time, their dinner needs to be cooked and their lunch for the next day."
But preparing their lunch can prove challenging, especially with Hill looking to make weight for the fight
"The girls ones get tempting with all those snacks and stuff, eh?" Nansen joked.
Leonara and Lavinne have changed Hill in a big way.
The kickboxer got into fighting because he wanted to learn how to protect himself from bullies at school. Now he credits his two girls as his motivation in the ring.
Because Hill is fighting it's Nansens turn to look after the girls while dad tries to win the $10,000 prize.
"If he wins our family wins and that's what we're going after this week" Nansen said.
It's not looking like the twins will be carrying on the family fighting tradition any time soon.
Leonara and Lavinne want to do gymnastics and ballet and mum and dad are more than happy for them to do what they want, with one proviso.
"Just as long as they learn self defence, learn how to look after themselves" Nansen said.
If they can't, they've got some pretty good family members they can call to help them out.
Newshub.
