DARREN TILL and Yoel Romero took part in a tense final staredown ahead of their eagerly anticipated bare-knuckle bust-up.
The former UFC middleweights top a stacked BKFC 94 bill in Manchester tomorrow night.
The MMA duo’s bare-knuckle clash will be the biggest fight in the BKFC’s eight-year history.
Neither man had any issues making weight for their 190lbs catchweight clash early this morning.
Till, 33, came in looking lean and mean at 188.8lbs.
Ageless wonder Romero, 49, continued to defy logic as he stepped onto the scale absolutely shredded at 189lbs.
Both men replicated their early-morning weigh-ins in front of a packed crowd at the AO Arena this evening.
And to the delight of the raucous crowd and the thousands watching the live stream around the world, they had another fiery final face-off.
It wasn’t, however, quite as intense as the one they had in their first pre-fight press conference in August – which lasted FOUR MINUTES
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But it lay the table for a now very much anticipated, but unexpected, clash of former UFC stars.
The pair exchanged words as they jawwed one another down for the final time, with Till repeatedly telling the Cuban crusher that “WAR” is coming.
Till inked a multi-fight deal with BKFC in April and went on to make his promotional debut against Aaron Chalmers the following month.
‘The Gorilla’ had to pick himself off the canvas in the first round of the Birmingham bust-up before stopping the former reality TV star in the second with a piston straight left.
Romero, meanwhile, has two bare-knuckle boxing fights to his name.
He ran through Theo Doukaus in one round at BKFC 80 last September, but came unstuck against Vagab Vagabov in their May melee.