Junior lightweight contenders Billy Dib and Tevin Farmer have been ordered to meet in a title elimination fight to produce the next mandatory challenge for world titleholder Gervonta Davis. The IBF sent letters to both camps (which have indicated in writing a willingness to participate) instructing them to begin negotiations. If they are not complete by June 26 a purse bid will be ordered. Neither boxer is allowed to take an interim bout prior to the eliminator, although Davis (18-0, 17 KOs) still has time to make an optional defense having taken care of his most recent mandatory against Liam Walsh, whom he knocked out in the third round on May 20. Australia's Dib (42-4, 24 KOs), 31, a former featherweight titlist, has won three fights in a row since getting knocked out in the third round of a junior lightweight title bout by Takashi Miura in May 2015. Farmer (25-4-1, 5 KOs), 26, of Philadelphia, has won 18 fights in a row since 2012, when he suffered an eighth-round knockout loss to Jose Pedraza, who went on to win a world title.