It's fair to say family comes first for Hawke's Bay mixed martial arts exponent Dan "The Gravedigger" Digby these days.
But that doesn't mean he has lost the high confidence levels he had when fighting was his priority.
"I'm going up there to hurt him before he hurts me. I'm going there for a good time not a long time," Digby said as he pondered his fight against Tauranga's Kelvin "Crazy Horse" Joseph, which will be the feature bout at a Shuriken Show at the North Shore Events Centre on Saturday night.
The pair will fight for a vacant middleweight title. Digby, 32, who holds one national welterweight title, two middleweight titles and one light heavyweight title, has yet to find out whether it will be a three or five-round contest.
"It doesn't worry me either way. You're either going to kill or be killed at this level," Digby, who boasts an 18-win-5-loss record, said. Digby has heard Joseph, 38, who is also a trainer like Digby, has won his last three welterweight fights but will be stepping up to the under-84kg middleweight division. Digby has to drop 2kg before the weigh-in.