Unable to wait for Feb. 2014, Fox will be televising its next Super Bowl a little bit earlier.

Hyped as the Super Bowl of MMA, the UFC’s debut on Fox broadcast television on Nov. 12 will be the heavyweight title fight between champion Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.  The event takes place in Anaheim, Calif.

UFC president Dana White and Fox Sports executives David Hill and Eric Shanks made the announcement Friday on a conference call during which the parties were giddy at times.

The five-round heavyweight fight originally was scheduled for the ensuing week in San Jose, Calif. for UFC 139, but was moved up within the last 48 hours, Shanks said, recalling conversations between network brass, White and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta.  The broadcast will be one hour, enough to cover the full five rounds of the fight — should it go the distance — and will include a short pre-game show, Hill said.

Should the match end briefly, Shanks said the network could re-broadcast the entire fight or plug in the best of the fights on the undercard, which White said will most likely be available on another outlet, similar to what the UFC has done on its Pay-Per-View and other recent cards.

“The way that we’re looking at this thing, there’s going to be millions of people who have never looked at the UFC before,” White said.  ”We need time to set up how the UFC works.  That’s basically why it’s being done that way.  The fans won’t notice a difference. It will be just like any other Pay-Per-View.”

“Most of the education will come through the commentary,” said Hill.  ”We don’t want to muck it up with little kinds of illustrations.”

White reiterated his constant claim that the UFC is not yet mainstream.  Fox is clearly out the change that notion, using the hype machine around the top network in America to bring in new eyes and ears to MMA.

The start is to treat the first broadcast television event in the promotion’s history the same way Fox handled matters Feb. 6, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV on their airwaves in the most mainstream sporting event in the United States.

“One thing we will be doing is launching the UFC on Fox with a Super Bowl-style red carpet and party with every dignitary we need to get out there to launch this thing,” Shanks said.

Hill dramatically put it into combat sports terms: “This is like us getting Ali-Foreman.”

White said it took a total of 3 1/2 minutes total to convince Velasquez and Dos Santos to move away from the UFC 139 card.  Normally fighters prefer to fight on PPV events because the bonus structure is higher.

That’s not the case for this event, though, since White said he expects the ratings number to “blow out of the water” the previously reported MMA broadcast records of Kimbo Slice’s CBS fights.  Those have been reported at anywhere from 4.5 to 6 million homes, and White recalled Slice’s pre-recorded match with Roy Nelson on The Ultimate Fighter as 5 million.

White said he feels there is no risk in the Velasquez-Dos Santos fight meeting expectations.  He’s betting everything he has that the heavyweights will deliver, after he and the production staff have outfitted the contest with all the bells and whistles.

He dared those on the call to name one time Velasquez or Dos Santos engaged in a boring fight.

“This is going to be an event of all events,” White said.  ”Just to be in Anaheim for this event, even if you can’t get a ticket, you’re going to feel the atmosphere and the buzz going on in town.”

Shanks said Fox producers have been working through the night in order to create promos for the event, and already will have them appearing on college football broadcasts this weekend.

That turnaround time is part of what has White overjoyed about the Fox Era of the UFC.

“We announced the deal, three hours later they were already promoting the UFC on the NFL,” White said of the original agreement.  ”And this deal doesn’t even start until January. We’ve never been treated like this.”

White and Company rarely have made a business misstep since erasing their reported $44 million in debts and building the UFC into what it has become.  Part of that success has been his management of expectations.

They’re through the roof for this event.

“The way that I look at this fight, this is our Forrest Griffin-Stephan Bonnar, but on a huge, massive platform,” White said.  ”And I am betting anything and everything that these guys are going to deliver.”