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Roger Huerta: ‘I Haven’t Gone Anywhere’

Roger Huerta does not believe he has shown the world everything he can do, but a decade and a half into his fighting career, he believes the time has come. The 34-year-old veteran made news on March 12, when it was announced that he had re-signed with the Bellator MMA organization. He will face former Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight titleholder Benson Henderson in the short-notice Bellator 196 main event on Friday in Budapest, Hungary.

“I had been actively looking to get back to [a promotion in] the [United] States,” said Huerta, who moved back to the U.