Looks like UFC President Dana White was serious about making his promotional debut on the FOX Sports 1 network this summer a blockbuster card.

MMA Fighting reported Saturday morning that a welterweight slugfest between surging contender Matt Brown and former title challenger Thiago Alves is in the works for the August 17 card.

While no contracts have been signed yet, Ariel Helwani states that both camps have verbally agreed upon the bout.

A 9-2 record inside the Octagon earned Alves a shot at long-reigning divisional kingpin Georges St-Pierre at UFC 100 in July 2009, but had no answers for the champion’s takedown clinic over the course of five rounds.

“The Pitbull” has fallen on tough times since then, going just 2-4 since his title bout with GSP, most recently suffering a last-minute submission loss to Martin Kampmann at UFC on FX 2 in March of last year.

Alves has been on the shelf for over a year after receiving surgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle in 2012.

Meanwhile, “The Immortal” is in the midst of a career renaissance, winning five-straight match ups, also the victor in six of his past seven bouts.

Brown went 4-0 in 2012 and showed he isn’t slowing down anytime soon by scoring a brutal TKO over Canadian prospect Jordan Mein at UFC on FOX 7 last month.

While Brown remains outside the welterweight top 10 rankings of most major MMA publications, a win over Alves would indisputably stake his claim as one of the best in the world at 170-pounds.

The event, set to take place at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, is rumored to be headlined by a light heavyweight bout between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva, though nothing has been formally announced yet about the match up.