Not even an additional two weeks could help produce a deal between a pair of unbeaten super middleweights.

The Ring has confirmed that an IBF-ordered title eliminator between Christian Mbilli and Kevin Lele Sadjo will now head to a purse bid hearing. Their Jan. 2 deadline and subsequent 14-day extension came and went without the two sides coming to terms, which prompted the IBF to schedule a Jan. 30 purse bid to determine promotional rights.

Mbilli (28-0, 23 KOs), The Ring No. 1 super middleweight, is co-promoted by Eye of the Tiger Management and Top Rank. Sadjo (24-0, 21 KOs) is with Yohan Zaoui’s Y12 Boxing.

The pair of unbeaten Cameroonian-Frenchmen were ordered in early December to begin negotiations for a fight their elimination bout. Both parties asked for more time once the calendar flipped to 2025, citing the holiday season as grounds for more time. The request was granted by the IBF but the matter is now subject to the highest bidder.

Sadjo entered the IBF title eliminator picture after Diego Pacheco (22-0, 18 KOs) passed on the opportunity to face Mbilli. Pacheco, The Ring No. 3 super middleweight, is already scheduled to next face Steven Nelson (20-0, 16 KOs) this Saturday on DAZN from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

Mbilli and Sadjo claimed three wins apiece in their respective 2024 campaigns.

Sadjo began his year with an eighth-round stoppage of Giovanni De Carolis on March 9 in Levallois-Perret, France. The feat marked his sixth consecutive stoppage, a streak which ended four months later in a June 9 twelve-round points win over Durval Elias Palacio in Paris.

A return to the knockout column came in a fourth-round stoppage of Argentina’s Diego Chavez in the fourth round on Dec. 14 in Nassau, Bahamas.

Mbilli outboxed former multiple time title challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko (15-6, 10 KOs) over ten rounds on Aug. 17 in Quebec City, Canada.

It snapped a three-fight knockout streak, which followed a ten-round, unanimous decision over Carlos Gongora (21-1, 16 KOs at the time) last March. Mbilli began his 2024 campaign with a sixth-round knockout of veteran fringe contender Rohan Murdock (27-2 at the time).