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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
The UFC will be hosting a fight on Dec. 13 that could have been in a Bellator cage last year, as they announced on Monday that Joe Riggs and Ben Saunders will square off on the UFC on Fox 13 card.
Riggs returns to the UFC eight years to the day from his last bout in the Octagon, and just a few months removed from shooting himself in the hand and leg while cleaning out his gun. That delayed him from a return after the UFC surprisingly signed him, and he exited Bellator after just one fight, in which he became the first (and only) winner of Spike reality show "Fight Master: Bellator MMA."
As for Saunders, after a lengthy stint in Bellator came to a contentious end on his end, he returned to the UFC in successful fashion in August, submitting Chris Heatherly with an omoplata.
UFC on Fox 13 hits Phoenix, Arizona, with a heavyweight headliner between Junior dos Santos and Stipe Miocic.
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