Negotiations were ordered yesterday by the WBO, cutting short the 180 day grace period Nietes was expected to be allowed before scheduling a mandatory defense. If no agreement is reached within a fortnight it will go to purse bids. WBO super flyweight title at stake, 1st defense of Nietes. This same belt was on the line, vacant, when this pair last met and fought to a controversial draw. Since then Nietes successfully claimed it with a SD over Kazuto Ioka on New Year's Eve, while Palicte cemented his opportunity for revenge & redemption by quickly knocking out José "Chiquiro" Martínez last week. My guess would be late May. That is just within 90 days of the purse bid deadline.
Nietes got a gift draw and then a gift win, if he was a ginger Mexican people would be hating on him a lot more than they are
You could make a case for him being 2-0 in his last two. ...but you could also make the case just as easily for him being 0-2.