Last December, Mexican warriors, Rene Calixto Bibiano and Willibaldo Garcia couldn't be separated on the scorecards when they fought to a 12-round draw, for the vacant IBF junior bantamweight title, in Shizuoka, Japan.

Now, six-months later, the two are scheduled to resume hostilities in their native Mexico, on Friday, when they, once again, will contest the IBF 115-pound title.

"I had some mistakes in the previous fight and I'm aware of that, I will correct them to beat Willibaldo, I'm looking forward to fighting him," Bibiano (23-0-1, 9 KOs) told The Ring through his manager Tatsuru Yoshikawa.

"Willibaldo has very strong punches and the first fight I received a lot of punches but I also hit him with many punches. So, on points, for me, it was fair."

Bibiano's promoter, TMK Promotions, which is owned by Tomoki Kameda, hosted the first fight. However, this time MP Promotions, which co-promotes Garcia with BXTSRS, won the purse bid ($151,100.10, which the two fighters will split 50/50) after both sides failed to reach an agreement for the rematch.

The fight has endured a number changes which haven't been ideal for Bibiano, who has found it quite unsettling.

"What happened that was going to fight April 26, now changed to May 23," he revealed. "Nobody and nothing told me the date change until 3 days before April 26.

"The truth is that I find it very difficult that I have been losing the weight and then they change the date a month later. Something strange is happening. I hope they don't do anything strange for May 23."

Having shared the ring with each other for 12 rounds, 'El Indio' expects more of the same.

"He's going to follow the same style, and I'll do the same but this time I'm correcting the mistakes I made in the previous fight," he said. "I should work more on my legwork, reactions, combinations, and counter punches.

"Those are the mistakes I made, and I should work harder for the next fight. I think I'll knock him out at some point in the fight."

Garcia (22-5-2, 13 KOs) turned professional in 2017. He lost three of his first five, but reeled off eight wins before narrowly losing to future WBC bantamweight titlist Alexandro Santiago by majority decision and former two-time bantamweight belt-holder Paul Butler on a split.

The 35-year-old won 10 fights to earn a fight for the IBF title against Bibiano the first time.