Two-time world champion Chris "The White Sniper" Johnson is coming home.
Hawke's Bay kickboxer Johnson, 34, who has been Aussie-based for 10 years, will fight Whanganui's James Griffiths for a national K1 kickboxing title.
It will be one of the feature bouts at the inaugural Combat Kings New Zealand Rise of the Legends Mixed Martial Arts event in the Hastings Sports Centre on Saturday night.
"I'm looking forward to coming home and competing in front of my family and the home crowd," Johnson said last night during a breather while training at his Sniper Kickboxing base in Sydney.
Those were the only words Johnson had time to pass on, an indication of how serious he is treating the five-round 85kg-division contest, for which he is coming up a weight division.