by Ronnie Nathanielsz

The International Boxing Federation has written to ALA Promotions president Michael Aldeguer to start negotiations for Milan Melindo

to fight champion Javier Mendoza in a rematch.

Aldeguer told krikya360.com/The Standard "we are talking to Zanfer Promotions (headed by Fernando Beltran)  and hopefully we can bring the title fight to Bacolod City on the undercard of the WBO light flyweight defense of Donnie Nietes, most probably against  Raul "Rayito" Garcia onMay 28," even though Zanfer wants to hold the Melindo-Mendoza rematch in Mexico.

However, Michael said "I told Fernando (Beltran) the last time we went to Mexico . Now we are hoping for Mendoza to come to the Philippines and hopefully it will happen on May28 ona big card in Bacolod" in which he also plans to have King Arthur Villanueva make a return to the ring after his controversial loss to McJoe Arroyo in El Paso,Texas in another controversial 10th round technical decision on July 18,  2015.

Aldeguer said "Milan now has a chance  to avenge his defeat" to Mendoza.

Melindo blamed American referee Gerard White for his poor decisions that eventually deprived him of victory in his IBF light flyweight title bout against champion Javier Mendoza of Mexico.

In an overseas telephone conversation with The Standard/BoxingScene from Los Angeles the day after the fight , Melindo claimed the cut on  Mendoza’s left eye was  caused by a legitimate punch and not by an accidental clash of heads and that referee White did not signal that the cut was caused by a head-butt when the fight was stopped on  the advice of the ring doctor.

The officials made the mistake of going to the scorecards that enabled Mendoza to retain his title with a lopsided technical points decision when it should have been a 6th round TKO in favor  of Melindo.

Melindo explained his strategy which resulted in Mendoza winning the first six rounds when he was the aggressor, telling us. “I knew Mendoza was strong and I planned to be defensive in the first six rounds and ready to  turn aggressor in the second half of the fight” when his body shots began to hurt the fading champion.

Melindo said “I knew his weakness was in absorbing body shots” and in the earlier rounds when he landed some solid body shots referee White mistakenly ruled them as low blows allowing Mendoza to lean on the ropes and rest even as he admitted landing one low blow although he was deducted for two supposed low blows, one in round 4 and another in round 5.

He also cited the referee’s  mistake in the opening round when he dropped Mendoza with a right to the side of the head which White inexplicably  ruled a low blow. Melindo insisted “it was a good shot.”

Melindo was cut on the right eye after an accidental clash of heads early in the 6th round with the fight being stopped at 2:39 of the same round when Mendoza's left eye was cut following a clash of heads .

Trainer Edito “Ala” Villamor said Melindo was “okay but naturally depressed because he lost a won fight” which was his second loss in a world title bid having earlier dropped a unanimous twelve round decision to the bigger WBO/WBA flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada in Macau.