Naz Khanjani has finally found herself a boxing opponent, Paul Henry's daughter, Bella.
The past few weeks have been a weight loss race for Henry, who says she was deemed to heavy to fight Naz when she first put a call-out for opponents in June.
Bella has quit drinking, changed her diet, and been hitting the gym to lose pounds for the fight, for which she must weigh no more than 56.9 kilograms.
Khanjani was originally scheduled to fight Mai FM radio DJ Lily Taurau in July of this year, however Khanjani was forced to withdraw from the fight at the last minute due to a kidney infection.
Bella was one of the first to accept Khanjani's challenge back in June.
In an interview with Newshub at the time, Bella declared: "Naz, you want to fight? I'm ready to fight you, I want to be on your hit list.
"I know you're gonna do all this s**t and be funny and make all these jokes and be mean and try and get me but I've got tough skin, you can say whatever you want to me, you can say your harsh words and I'm just gonna show you with my fist.
"And you know what, you want a nose job? Well I'm going to give you one."
Finding an opponent to match Khanjani for size and weight posed a challenge for organisers, she hits the scales at just 50kg.
This time, Bella says she is ready.
"Last time there was a shorter period of time to lose the weight, it was down to me and Lilly and she had to lose less weight.
"It was going to be such a rushed experience and Duco weren't fully confident in me being able to get there mentally in time either, which I totally agree with, and this time I've had more time to prep."
Initially, Bella hit the scales at 63kg.
She is now 57.3, and is confident she will make the 56.9 cut-off before the fight on October 1.
"Lately it's been working, training, go home, sleep. No partying, no nothing, I just pretty much nag my boyfriend the whole time cause I've got nothing else to do but clean."
Khanjani and Bella first met for an interview on Wednesday morning's Paul Henry show, where the two opponents were interviewed by Bella's father.
Asked about the fight theatrics of opponents disliking each other, Bella said, "I think if we really hated each other it would be too easy to get distracted".
Khanjani said she disagreed, "I think if you really liked someone, it would be harder to hit them in the face."
Bella said their interaction had so far been amicable.
"Maybe she might feel like she needs to do that to get her head in the game, sometimes people find it easier to not like someone to fight."
Bella won't be using any controversy surrounding Khanjani's time on The Bachelor as motivation in the ring.
"I don't know the girl personally so I don't know what shes really like, yeah she's had a bit of a bad rap and stuff, but I'm not going to take that into consideration. I've had bad things said about me, I'm just going to keep it very neutral."
Bella said she did see herself winning the match, despite this being her first ever boxing experience.
Asked what she thought of a possible "Good Girl v Bad Girl" public perception of the fight, Bella said she did not consider herself a "good girl" - "I'm just better at hiding it," she added.
When called for comment, Khanjani asked that media requests be directed to Duco's Craig Stanaway, who has been contacted.
Bella and Khanjani step into the ring on Saturday, October 1, fighting on the undercard to Joseph Parker's bout with Alexander Dimitrenko at Auckland's Vodafone Events Centre.
The ticketed event will also feature Junior Fa, Bowyn Morgan, Izu Ugonoh and Brown Buttabean fighting in the lead up to the main Parker v Dimitrenko fight.


