By Miguel Rivera

As BoxingScene.com reported earlier this week, the International Boxing Federation (IBF) ordered their welterweight champion, Errol Spence Jr. (23-0, 20 KO's), to make a mandatory defense against Carlos "Chema" Ocampo (22-0, 13 KO's).

Spence made his first defense of belt last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, when he broke down and stopped former champion Lamont Peterson in the eight round.

Ocampo had previously been order to face Russia's Konstantin Ponomarev in an IBF final eliminator, but the contest was called off last fall, over some internal team issues within Ponomarev's camp.

On Wednesday, it was announced that Spence would defend his world title on June 16th in Dallas, Texas.

Spence told BoxingScene.com that he was open to the possibility of satisfying his mandatory defense on that date.

The representatives of Spence and Ocampo have yet to negotiate, so anything with respect to the fight is premature at the moment.

But the Mexican boxer embraces the fight and the opportunity to go for a world title - but he's unsure if the fight will go down in june as nobody has told him anything.

"I still do not know anything. Nothing has been said. People are asking me if I'm going to fight for the title with Errol Spence, but we have not reached an agreement and the promoter has not told me anything, so I don't know what will happen," said Ocampo.

"I've seen him fight, he's strong, he's left-handed, he's always going to the front and destroying his opponent, he works a lot on body shots first and then ends up with his punches going upstairs. And since the IBF ordered the fight, we are working on whatever our promoter (Zanfer) says." 

Ocampo, 22 years old, had hoped that the contest with Ponomarev would have gone through.

"It would have left me with a great experience to face an undefeated rival in 32 fights with a great position. It would have been an excellent test," Ocampo.