UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou weighed in 10lbs heavier than interim titleholder Ciryl Gane ahead of their UFC 270 clash on Saturday night.
Ngannou stepped on the scale at 257lbs whilst Gane came in 10lbs heavier at 247lbs for the title fight.
All other fighters made weight for their bouts on the card, meaning the flyweight title fight between Brandon Moreno and Deiveson Figueiredo is also official.
The event is now down to 11 fights after Rodolfo Vieira and Ilia Topuria withdrew from their respective contests on Friday morning.
Vieira was scheduled to fight Wellington Turman on the main card, whilst Topuria was supposed to fight Charles Jourdain on the prelims.
Ngannou weighed 263lbs for his fight with Stipe Miocic last March, in which he avenged his loss and won the title by second-round knockout.
Gane - who is undefeated in 10 professional bouts - also weighed in at 247lbs for his interim title win against Derrick Lewis last August at UFC 265.
The top heavyweights have a backstory heading into their title fight on Saturday night, briefly training with each other at the MMA Factory in Paris.
Ngannou refused to label Gane as a former teammate given they only spent three months together at the gym, with Ngannou leaving in 2019 after a fall-out with coach Fernand Lopez.
Undisputed champion Ngannou has been unhappy with his former gym in the lead-up to UFC 270 after they released a clip of him sparring with Gane.
'The Predator' admitted he couldn't help but laugh when watching the clip whilst claiming to have knocked out Gane in sparring before.
They traded accounts of the incident at the UFC 270 press conference with Ngannou stating: "He was knocked out, probably, because he doesn’t remember."
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Gane replied: "This is not the truth. We did some sparring – and it was really great sparring from Francis. It was a beautiful left kick. The problem with Francis is he doesn’t like technical sparring – (he likes) to make power.
"You gave me the left kick. You hurt me. You see? I’m honest – you hurt me. You hurt me. But you didn’t knock me down.”
Ngannou added whilst he has never been friends with Gane, he is on neutral terms with his opponent and only dislikes his former coach Lopez.
And 'The Predator' doubled down on this when talking with Gane during their face-off on Thursday.
"No matter what you might believe don't let it get in your brain, I respect you and Saturday we are gonna go at war," he told Gane.
And Gane then replied to his opponent: "I am happy Francis."
