Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez, Emanuel Navarrete and promoter Eddie Hearn all agreed Saturday night that they want the junior lightweight champions to face each other next in a title unification fight.

Navarrete attended Nunez’s fight with Christopher Diaz for the sole purpose of promoting their domestic showdown. Once Nunez handled his business by unanimously outpointing his feisty challenger, Navarrete entered the ring in Nunez’s hometown of Los Mochis, Mexico, and expressed exactly what Nunez had hoped.

“It’s great to hear you say that you want to fight me as well,” Nunez told Navarrete. “You know, I admire you a great deal and I would love to share the ring with you. So, let’s give Mexico that fight.”

A bout between Navarrete (39-2-1, 32 KOs, 1 NC), who owns the WBO belt, and Nunez (29-1, 27 KOs), the IBF champ, would generate a lot of fanfare in Mexico. It would also appeal aesthetically to boxing fans outside of their home country.

“It would be a pleasure to fight ‘Sugar’ Nunez,” Navarrete said. “I think, more than anything, Mexico wants that fight.”

Hearn, whose Matchroom Boxing promotes Nunez, wants Navarrete next for Nunez as well.

“There’s another great Mexican war that I think needs to be made,” Hearn said. “And that’s ‘Sugar’ Nunez against Emanuel Navarrete.”

The potential problem, however, is that the WBO ordered Navarrete to grant Charly Suarez an immediate rematch following their controversial no-contest May 10 at Pechanga Arena in San Diego.

The California State Athletic Commission changed the result of that fight from a unanimous technical-decision win for Navarrete to a no-contest June 2 because it determined Suarez’s left hand, not an accidental clash of heads, opened a cut over Navarrete’s left eye early in the sixth round. Had referee Edward Collantes or replay official Jack Reis ruled on fight night that Suarez’s punch opened Navarrete’s cut, Suarez would’ve won by technical knockout when a ringside physician wouldn’t allow Navarrete to continue early in the eighth round.

The Ring has learned that the Philippines’ Suarez (18-0, 10 KOs, 1 NC) would have to agree to an acceptable arrangement, including compensation, to step aside and allow Navarrete to face Nunez next in a championship unification fight. Navarrete could still face Nunez next if Suarez refuses to cooperate by giving up his WBO belt, but Navarrete-Nunez would be a less meaningful, lucrative fight for them without a second title at stake.

Contractually guaranteeing Suarez the Navarrete-Nunez winner in his following fight might help Hearn, Nunez and Navarrete secure the fight that they want. Navarrete and Suarez are both promoted by Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc.