Bellator MMA will make its first visit to Phoenix in September for Bellator 100.

Promotion officials on Friday announced the card, which will feature the delayed Season 8 welterweight tournament final, plus the start of the Season 9 170-pound tourney.

Bellator 100 will take place Sept. 20 at Grand Canyon University Arena in Phoenix. The main card will air live on Spike TV following prelims on Spike.com. Tickets for the event now are on sale starting at $25.

In the main event, Douglas Lima (24-5 MMA, 6-1 BFC) meets Ben Saunders (16-5-2 MMA, 7-2 BFC) in the delayed Season 8 tournament final in the welterweight division, a fight that also is a rematch of the Season 5 tourney finals. The two were scheduled to meet at Bellator 93 in March, but consecutive Lima injuries pushed the fight back.

And also on the main card, the Season 9 170-pound tournament gets underway with four opening round bouts featuring Justin Baesman (14-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Brent Weedman (21-8-1 MMA, 7-3 BFC); Vaughn Anderson (16-1-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. War Machine (13-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC); Luis Melo (29-11 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Matthew Riddle (7-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC); and Mark Scanlon (9-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Herman Terrado (11-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC).

Lima knocked Saunders out at Bellator 57 to win the Season 5 welterweight tournament and advanced to a title shot against Ben Askren. But he dropped that fight by unanimous decision. After a TKO win in November of this past year, he picked up knockout wins the Season 8 tourney’s opening round and semifinals against Michail Tsarev and Bryan Baker, giving him three straight and 12 wins in his past 13 fights.

“I can’t wait for this fight,” Lima stated. “I have been injured back-to-back, but this time I’ll be 100 percent and we’re going to have one of the best fights of the year. I am ready to fight for the belt and I am coming hard.”

Saunders will be hoping to change his Bellator tournament fortunes. The UFC vet, who went 4-3 in that promotion, lost to Lima in the Season 5 tourney finals, then dropped a decision to Baker in the Season 6 semifinals. But since then, he has wins over Brian Warren, Koffi Adzitso and Raul Amaya, the latter two to get him to another fight against Lima.

Baesman will make his UFC debut on a four-fight win streak, including a split-decision victory over UFC veteran Daniel Roberts in June. Overall, he’s won eight of his past nine fights. Weedman is one of Bellator’s most veteran fighters, and he’ll take part in his fifth Bellator tournament. He was bounced in the semifinals in Season 4, opening round in Season 5 and lost to Rich Hawn in the Season 6 finals. In Season 8, he beat Marius Zaromskis in the opening round, but he had to bow out before the semifinals with an injury.

Anderson debuts for Bellator without a loss since September 2007. Since then, he has gone 11-0-1, with a draw with UFC standout Dong Hyun Kim in 2009 keeping him from perfection. Fourteen of his 16 wins have come by stoppage. He’ll meet War Machine, who made his long-awaited Bellator debut earlier this summer and stopped Blas Avena with a first-round TKO in his first fight since November 2011.

Riddle will make his Bellator debut after fighting his entire pro career for the UFC. He was cut from the promotion after testing positive for marijuana twice in three fights, turning two wins into no-contests. Instead of having four straight UFC wins, he has two and two suspensions. Melo – “Sergio Junior” – won his Bellator debut with an arm-triangle choke submission over Trey Houston in March at Bellator 94. That gave the Brazilian six straight wins.

Scanlon, who lost to Pascal Krauss at UFC 122 in his only top-tier competition thus far, will fight for the first time in Bellator. The native of England, a former lightweight, fought three times in a four-week stretch earlier this summer, going 2-1 with a pair of submissions. Terrado will debut for Bellator on the strength of seven straight wins, including a knockout win over A.J. Matthews for Strikeforce in April 2011.

The Bellator 100 card now includes:

MAIN CARD (Spike TV, 9 p.m. ET)

Douglas Lima vs. Ben Saunders – Season 8 welterweight tournament final Justin Baesman vs. Brent Weedman – welterweight tournament opening round Vaughn Anderson vs. War Machine – welterweight tournament opening round Luis Melo vs. Matt Riddle – welterweight tournament opening round Mark Scanlon vs. Herman Terrado – welterweight tournament opening round

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(Pictured: Ben Saunders)