Junior dos Santos’ next opponent has been Cain Velasquez ever since Velasquez demolished Antonio Silva, for all we’d ever been told. But tonight, a bit of a shift in the plan seems to be taking place with some suggestion that JDS might be fighting Alistair Overeem instead.
First, this started floating around:
And that was later expanded on by Brett Okomoto of ESPN:
So, it looks like they’re leaving the door open to book Overeem into the title shot despite currently without a fight license and unable to apply until mid to late December…the month of the JDS fight. That would be a very risky move, but the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s pathetic behavior at Overeem’s license hearing certainly suggests they wouldn’t make too big of a deal of it.