Spike TV Counter Programming FOX Event With Cain Velasquez & Junior Dos Santos Bouts

Tweet It will be a battle of the heavyweights on November 12, as Spike TV plans on counter programming the Ultimate Fighting Championships debut event on FOX. The FOX event will feature just one fight, a heavyweight title match between UFC champion Cain Velasquez and No. 1 contender, Junior dos Santos. Spike meanwhile, is planning […]

It will be a battle of the heavyweights on November 12, as Spike TV plans on counter programming the Ultimate Fighting Championships debut event on FOX.

The FOX event will feature just one fight, a heavyweight title match between UFC champion Cain Velasquez and No. 1 contender, Junior dos Santos.

Spike meanwhile, is planning on airing previous bouts from both Velasquez and Dos Santos on the same evening.

Check out the full schedule below from the Press Release.

Press Release – Spike TV and MTV2 are combining for a knockout night of mixed martial arts programming on Saturday, November 12 from 7:00pm-12:00am ET/PT. MTV2 will kick off the night at 7:00pm ET/PT with a live two-hour fight card featuring the welterweight final in the Bellator Season 5 tournament. MMA fans can then switch over to Spike TV at 9:00pm ET/PT for a three-hour “UFC Unleashed” marathon, “Dos Santos vs. Velasquez: Unleashed for the Heavyweight Title,” featuring many of the top fighters in the world including current heavyweight contenders Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos.

Enclosed is the action-packed Spike TV/MTV 2 schedule:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

7:00-9:00pm

MTV 2 (simulcast in HD on Epix)

Bellator Fighting Championships

Season 5 –Welterweight final

Casino Rama, Ontario

Fighters tbd

9:00-12:00am

SPIKE TV

“Dos Santos vs Velasquez: Unleashed for the Heavyweight Title”

9:00pm

Jon Jones vs. Ryan Bader

Junior dos Santos vs. Shane Carwin

Cain Velasquez vs. Brock Lesnar

10:00pm

Junior dos Santos vs. Mirko “Cro Cop”

Tyson Griffin vs. Hermes France

Thiago Silva vs. Keith Jardine

11:00pm

Cain Velasquez vs. Minotauro Nogueira

Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg

Pat Barry vs Antoni Hardonk

Mark Munoz vs Kendall Grove