Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Junior dos Santos in the works for UFC 107

By Jacob Camargo October 11, 2009A heavyweight bout between rising contender Junior dos Santos and former UFC heavyweight title challenger Gabriel Gonzaga is in discussions to take place at UFC 107 in December. News of the bout was first reported by Fighters.com. According to the report, the Gonzaga vs. dos Santos bout is also being considered for the UFC 108 event on Jan. 2 because of the fact that UFC 107 is already stacked with quality pay-per-view fights. Gonzaga was originally rumored to be facing dos Santos' mentor, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, at an upcoming December or January UFC event, however, it is likely that Nogueira passed on the fight because he did not want to jeopardize losing his promised title shot. Gonzaga (11-4) is coming off of a first-round TKO win over Brock Lesnar's training partner, Chris Tuchscherer, at UFC 102 in August and is now 3-1 in his last four bouts. His only loss during the stretch came against current UFC heavyweight tit...