Rolando Romero has until the end of business Monday to either show proof of injury or honor his mandatory title defense obligation.

A ruling handed down from the WBA Championships Committee called for a 72-hour period from Friday for the Las Vegas native to submit the necessary medical records required to grant a requested exemption. Romero remains on the hook to defend his WBA junior welterweight title versus mandatory challenger Ohara Davies and thus far has not complied with any of prior orders.

“The WBA Championships Committee gave a 72-hour deadline to the super lightweight champion, Rolando Romero, to send the MRI of his injury,” WBA Championships Committee chairman Carlos Chavez said in a ruling made public by the sanctioning body. “The committee had already requested this MRI last August 8 and so far has not received a response to make a decision on the future of the category.”

To date, Romero (15-1, 13KOs) has only provided a 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, which in turn likely triggered the recent ruling.

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 Romero’s compliance with the WBA’s latest 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.

Failure by Romero to comply either with the medical request or the demand to next face Davies could result in his being stripped of the title.

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