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DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT FIGHT: Shane Cameron admits he is sick of talking about last year's fight against David Tua, but says the loss now serves as motivation.

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BLEEDING AND BEATEN: Blood trickles down the right cheek of Shane Cameron after his second round knockout loss to David Tua at Mystery Creek.

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Shane Cameron admits he is sick of talking about last year's fight against David Tua, but says the loss now serves as motivation.

Cameron, who has a six-year-old daughter who lives in Feilding, was in Palmerston North on Saturday night to promote the Adrenaline Muay Thai Kickboxing event and helped judge the ring girl competition.

The 32-year-old said he never thought his career was over after his second-round defeat by knockout to Tua in October.

"It's actually made me more hungry after that fight," Cameron told the Manawatu Standard.

"He caught me with a sweet shot. That's about it. He never outboxed me. He never did anything.

"He never beat me up for 10 rounds then knocked me out. He caught me with a sweet shot and I just never recovered.

"My confidence was never dented during that loss. It's never been dented at all. It's just made me more hungry and I'm ready to go."

Cameron has spent the past month doing up his Mount Albert, Auckland, home after his victory over John Hopoate in March, but said he would make a major announcement in the coming week about his next opponent.

"We hope to have something within the next seven days. We'll have something planned," he said, but couldn't give more details.

"Nah nah, I can't tell you. I don't really know myself, to be honest mate. There's quite a few names floating around.

There's quite a few opportunities floating around, it's just a matter of seizing the right opportunity."

Just who that right opportunity is remains to be seen, but Cameron is unwavering in his belief that he has the potential to be a world class fighter.

"I'll get to the top. I'm in this game for a long time. I'm 32 so I've got plenty of time, I've got a good five years to seize my opportunity, which is to fight for the title."

Cameron also didn't rule out trying his hand at kickboxing one day.

"I've thought about it, but not hard enough to obviously get into it. But you never know further down the track. At this stage it's boxing.

"Boxing's all I know so I'll just focus on what I know."

He dished out some words of advice to the fighters on Saturday night, but he had to speak to both corners at the same time because there was only one changing room in the IPC gym.

"I just said to them, `it all comes down to being in the ring and obviously you haven't trained so hard for this night to come second, so it's all about putting your body on the line for this particular night'."

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