SINGAPORE – John Hathaway will return from a 17-month layoff when he headlines a UFC event on March 1. Such layoffs stink, he said, but especially when your division gets a complete overhaul. Hathaway (17-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) was on a three-fight winning streak and steadily moving up the UFC’s 170-pound ranks before illness (ulcerative colitis) and injuries sent him to the sidelines. But on March 1, he faces fellow welterweight contender Dong Hyun Kim (18-2-1 MMA, 9-2 UFC) in the headline of “The Ultimate Fighter: China’s” live finale, which streams on UFC Fight Pass from The Venetian Macao’s CotaiArena in Macau. The TUF China Finale allows Hathaway, an English fighter who’s defeated the likes of Diego Sanchez and Paul Taylor since joining the UFC in 2009, to reclaim his contender status. “I can’t wait for this fight,” he told MMAjunkie
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John Hathaway discusses layoff, UFC headliner status, ‘wide open’ division – MMA Junkie