UFC headliner John Hathaway on facing Stun Gun, the departure of Georges St-Pierre and Lawler v Hendricks The fact that we were meant to be matched before is great but I'm really looking forward to this one. Hathaway has been out with two bouts of ulcerative colitis since September 2012. When he makes his solitary walk to the Octagon on the Cotai Strip, to face Stun Gun, it will be 17 months since he stepped inside the combat arena. The illness set in after he had fought in a drowsy bout against John Maguire in Nottingham in September 2012. He knew he had a sluggishness in him after that contest, when he went back into training. The problem was identified, he thought it had been solved, then it returned. I suffered another bout of the ulcerative colitis but I've managed to clear it up and I've been getting everything together, basically just rebuilding my body. I've changed a lot of my diet this time around because clearly there was something in there which made it relapse. I'm keeping the micro-nutrients high in my body. But I'm well now, I'm fighting fit and sparring again lots, so I really just can't wait for this one. We're both big welterweights so it's going to be interesting. Hathaway knows how impressive Kim was in 2013, with a smothering victory over Siyar Bahadurzada and an aggressive come-forward stoppage over Erick Silva. Both were impressive. I think he flustered Erick a lot with the way he came after him, and I think Erick had a hard time. He escaped a lot in the first round and it took it out of him, and in the second round he really wanted to chase him down and ran in to a punch. It was a great shot by Stun Gun. He was more of a grappler at one stage and he's evolved a lot in MMA. His stand-up is also working incredibly well now. I believe I'll be a match for him. I'll use my knees to basically scare him off a lot of the takedowns and force him in to a stand-up battle. I know he's a great judo player with great hip tosses as well. But it's a great test for me, the one for me to show everyone what I can do, and what I'm made of. I genuinely can't wait. Hathaway watched Georges St Pierre's last fight and retirement, with interest. GSP has, of course, said this week that the drug testing procedure was one of his reasons precipitating the move. "I can't say anything bad about George," said Hathaway. If he said he needed time out he needed time out. At the moment he feels like this is the best move for him and it is. The fight between Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler is going to be great as well. They're both southpaws as well which is going to make it a bit awkward for both of them because southpaws are so used to fighting orthodox people but it'll be interesting. They can both knock someone out at the drop of a hat so we'll see whether Hendricks can actually dominate and use his wrestling to get Lawler down. Lawler's a big strong guy and he works with a lot of wrestlers. He's very experienced, he's been in the sport for a long time. I remember watching him getting in to the sport so I'm excited by the fight from a fan's point of view. Listen to this week's UFC World Podcast in which John Hathaway explains to Gareth A Davies what he went through on his 15 months away from the sport. Also on the podcast, the influential Marshall Zelaznik, Head of Content at Zuffa, talks about the newly-created 'Fight Pass', and the complexities of making the matrix work globally. Women's bantamweight fighter Cat Zingano discusses her year in 2014, revealing that adversity has always spurred her on [Note: this interview was done before the death of Zingano's husband on Tuesday] and middleweight Lorenz Larkin, "The Monsoon" , describes his pure love of fighting ahead of his third contest in the UFC ranks, against Brad Tavares in Duluth, Georgia, tonight.