One other IBF-ordered title struggle will forgo a negotiation interval.
The Ring has confirmed that the Anthony Cacace-Eduardo Núnez IBF 130-pound title struggle will head to a June 11 purse bid listening to. A ruling was made upon request from Núnez’s staff, per their proper in compliance with ordered obligatory title fights.
“On Could 23, 2024, the IBF ordered Anthony Cacace and Eduardo Núnez to start negotiations,” IBF president Daryl Peoples knowledgeable all registered promoters in a letter obtained by The Ring. “On Could 28, 2024 Juan Carlos Torres [of BXSTRS Promotions] representing Eduardo Núnez as c0-promoter together with Matchroom Boxing requested a direct purse bid as a result of an settlement couldn’t be reached.”
Combat Freak Unite’s Dan Rafael was the primary to report the event.
A 30-day negotiation interval was beforehand assigned to the ordered title struggle. That decision got here 5 days after Cacace dethroned Joe Cordina through eighth-round knockout on Could 18 in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia.
Cacace (22-1, 8 knockouts), The Ring’s No. 5-rated junior light-weight, delivered a career-best efficiency on his largest stage so far. The bout happened on the Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury undercard. Cordina (17-1, 9 KOs) entered the struggle on the hook to honor the obligatory protection with a win. That obligation has now transferred to Cacace, who has received seven in a row.
Núnez (27-1, 27 KOs) stormed into the number-one slot with an eleventh-round knockout of former titlist Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov. Their Feburary 16 title eliminator noticed Núnez hit the highway to put on down and cease Rakhimov (17-2-1, 14 KOs) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
The struggle marked the primary time that Núnez was prolonged past the tenth spherical. He didn’t want for much longer than that, nonetheless, to shut the present. The win prolonged his present seventeen-fight win and knockout streak.
Cacace and Núnez are obligated to stay dedicated to the struggle, per IBF guidelines on obligatory title defenses.
Failure by any IBF titlist to honor a compulsory protection will end result of their being stripped of the title. Equally, challengers who abandon the method will probably be ineligible to take part in any IBF-sanctioned bout for at the least six months. Moreover, such failure by a challenger may even end in a demotion outdoors the IBF’s high ten.
Information of the purse bid comes lower than 24 hours after the Canelo Alvarez-William Scull 168-pound championship was dealt the identical destiny. As beforehand reported by The Ring, the listening to for that struggle is scheduled for June 6, per request by Scull’s staff to finish the negotiation interval.
Jake Donovan is a senior author for The Ring and vp of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America.
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