The WBA has extended its own deadline as the junior welterweight title picture remains at a standstill. (photo by Ryan Hafey)

Rolando Romero and Ohara Davies continue to wait out the process as Romero’s medical records are still being reviewed by the sanctioning body. The reigning WBA junior welterweight titlist filed for an exemption to delay his mandatory title status, citing an undisclosed injury.

Las Vegas’ Romero (15-1, 13KOs) had until the end of business Monday to either show proof of injury or honor his mandatory title defense obligation. The WBA’s initial hard stance has since softened, as Davies and his team are forced to wait for a final ruling on the overdue matter,

Romero previously only submitted medical report in accordance with an exemption to delay the process for his ordered fight versus England’s Davies (25-2, 18KOs). The matter was scheduled for a July 24 purse bid hearing but the WBA agreed to delay the proceeding upon Romero’s July 21 filed request.

The matter has since drawn the ire of Davies, his management team and Golden Boy Promotions, who signed the contender earlier this summer. Golden Boy co-founder and chairman Oscar De La Hoya has already threatened legal action if the sanctioning body did not resolve the matter, though BoxingScene.com has learned that their side has since been assured a resolution is coming before week’s end.

Romero won the vacant WBA 140-pound title in a controversial ninth-round stoppage of Venezuela’s Ismael Barroso on May 15 in Las Vegas. He was due to previously challenge unbeaten titlist Alberto Puello, who was removed from the event and subsequently stripped of the title after he tested positive for the banned substance Clomiphene.

The WBA previously granted approval for Puello to face Romero in a voluntary defense, on the condition that the winner honor back-to-back mandatories. That list was cut in half when Barroso replaced Puello, leaving the Romero-Barroso winner to next face Davies, who became the mandatory after a ninth-round knockout of countryman Lewis Ritson in their March 4 title eliminator in Newcastle, England.

Romero-Davies was ordered on May 30. Talks went nowhere, which prompted the call for a purse bid. Pending the WBA’s forthcoming ruling, the matter will either be tabled or head back to a scheduled hearing, in which case the minimum acceptable bid is $110,000 to obtain promotional rights.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox