The UFC heavyweight title fight between champion Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos is slated for Nov. 19, promotional chairman Lorenzo Fertitta told the LA Times on Thursday.

The report said Fertitta, on behalf of the UFC, is targeting that date and looking at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., as the location.   Based on the schedule of potential events that have been reported, this would set up as UFC 139.

Should the fight commence Nov. 19, it would mean Velasquez’s layoff from his title-winning performance over Brock Lesnar will have lasted 13 months.  Velasquez had surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder and his rehabilitation has been the reason for the long delay.

Dos Santos did not sit idly by waiting for his title shot.  When the original fight with Velasquez had to be postponed due to the champion’s surgery, dos Santos took a spot as a coach on the 13th season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show, opposite Lesnar.  When Lesnar had to pull out of their UFC 130 match with a recurrence of diverticulitis, former UFC interim heavyweight champ Shane Carwin stepped in.  Dos Santos battered Carwin for three rounds to win a lopsided decision and regain the chance at Velasquez.