Fighters.com's Sixth-ranked lightweight Eiji Mitsuoka (13-5-2) popped Rodrigo Damm (8-2) with an overhand right in the first round Sunday night in Saitama, north of Tokyo, then slid a rear naked choke around the BJJ player's throat for the tap at 3:13 of the round. Mitsuoka advanced to the second round of the Sengoku lightweight tournament, the winner of which will fight second-ranked "Fireball Kid" Takanori Gomi (29-3). Gomi headlined Sengoku's fourth battle with a narrow decision over DEEP Lightweight Champion Seung Hwan Bang (5-2). It was Bang who provided the bang in his stand-up exchanges with the notorious big-puncher Gomi. But, Gomi edged Bang with stinging leg kicks and championship conditioning for the decision. ...

"Maybe six months, maybe six years, who knows," ended "Semtex" Paul Daley's (18-6-2) retirement announcement in the Cage Warriors forum last February. Well, now we know the exciting British welterweight's hiatus would last even less than six months. Fighting for the first time in his native Nottingham Saturday night, Daley blasted undefeated Slovenian "Zelva" Bojan Kosednar (6-1) with a left hook at 4:53 of round one. Lights out Kosednar! Kosednar had already hit the deck at the end of Daley strikes three times before being knocked out.  The end was inevitable. Daley is signed to a ProElite contract and his dominant return may have earned him a title shot versus the winner of 26 July's EliteXC Welterweight Championship fight between eighth-ranked Jake Shields (20-4-1) and ninth-ranked "Goat" Nick Thompson (36-9-1). ...

British welterweight prospect "Semtex" Paul Daley (17-6-2) will quash his three-month stint in retirement to return 12 July at Cage Warriors: Enter The Rough House 7 in his hometown, Nottingham, according to the Cage Warriors website. Andy Lillis of Cage Warriors said, "Paul came to the April show in Nottingham and obviously he was there to support his fellow team mates, but, after a three-year absence from the CWFC Cage, perhaps he decided here and no w was the right place for him to make his comeback. Frankly I was as surprised as I am delighted by his decision." Daley will fight undefeated Slovenian "Zelva" Bojan Kosednar (6-0), according to Sherdog. Kosednar last defeated BJJ vet Fabricio Nascimento (19-6) in May in Modena, Italy. "Semtex" knocked out "Squeeze" Sam Morgan (19-10) in January. ...