Professional boxing rivals keep wary distance on joint promotional tour of the country.
Shane Cameron's fight against Brian Minto could break his career, so to spend the weeks leading up to Saturday's clash in the company of the American has been, as he says, "interesting".
As the headline bout for the Fight for Life event at Waitakere's Trusts Stadium, the promoters have sent the pair and their trainers to most parts of New Zealand to build the hype.
"It's something that I haven't experienced before, travelling with my opponent," Cameron said. "We try to keep everything as separate as we can. We have to fly on the same plane together; we have our dinner on one table here and they have their dinner on one table there and we get in separate cars ... you get times when you are standing there and Brian is standing there as well and you end up just having a chat anyway, just talking about everyday stuff because you're both human beings.
"You do get to know one another just slightly but I know when the first bell comes there's going to be fireworks straight away."