Dustin Pague meets newcomer Kyogi Horiguchi at UFC 166 in Houston

The UFC’s return to Houston next month appears to again be complete with the addition of a 13th bout.

Dustin Pague (11-8 MMA, 1-4 UFC) will take on promotional newcomer Kyogi Horiguchi (11-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in a bantamweight bout on the card, UFC officials announced.

UFC 166 takes place Oct. 19 at Houston’s Toyota Center and is headlined by a rubber match between heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez and ex-champ Junior dos Santos.

Pague very likely finds himself in a must-win situation. The 26-year-old has lost three straight fights and four of five in the UFC. Two of his three straight setbacks, though, have been by split decision. In June at UFC 161, he dropped a split call to Yves Jabouin in Winnipeg in his first fight in 10 months.

The Virginian went 1-2 in 2012, a year that saw him fight twice in two weeks. He submitted Jared Papazian in the first round at UFC on FX 3 in Florida, then went up the coast two weeks later to fight Ken Stone at UFC on FX 4 on short notice. But he dropped a split decision there to start his current skid.

Horiguchi, the Shooto 132-pound champion, signs with the UFC on the strength of a five-fight win streak that includes three stoppages in his native Japan, where the 22-year-old has fought exclusively since turning pro in 2009.

Horiguchi’s training partners with the Krazy Bee team in Japan include the UFC’s Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, former UFC fighter Issei Tamura and Kotetsu Boku, who on Friday fought in the main event at ONE FC 10. His resume includes a unanimous decision win this past December over UFC veteran Ian Loveland and eight stoppages in his 11 wins.

With the addition, UFC 166 now includes:

MAIN CARD (PPV, 10 p.m. ET)

• Champ Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos – for heavyweight title
• Daniel Cormier vs. Roy Nelson
• Gilbert Melendez vs. Diego Sanchez
• Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Shawn Jordan
• John Dodson vs. Darrell Montague

PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET)

• Tim Boetsch vs. Luke Rockhold
• Hector Lombard vs. Nate Marquardt
• Jessica Eye vs. Sarah Kaufman
• K.J. Noons vs. George Sotiropoulos

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 6 p.m. ET)

• Adlan Amagov vs. T.J. Waldburger
• Tony Ferguson vs. Mike Rio
• Jeremy Larsen vs. Charles Oliveira
• Kyogi Horiguchi vs. Dustin Pague

For the latest on UFC 166, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Dustin Pague)