"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). ...

The World Freefight Challenge returns to Dubrovnik 19 April with their No? Gladiatora series, highlighting the increasing popularity of MMA in Europe and specifically Eastern Europe. Undefeated Croatian "Mean Machine" Maro Perak (10-0) and Italian Aramis Alberti (1-2) will fight in the card's middleweight main event. Perak has won all but one fight by stoppage and four consecutive by first round TKO.  He comes off one such "W" over Jose Buda (0-1) last month. Aramis was last submitted in March by Frenchman Antony Rea (13-9) in Spain. The card also matches Brazilian veteran Fabricio Nascimento (19-4) with Slovenian Vale Tudo fighter Dalibor Anastasov (8-1). Both fighters come off stoppage victories in their last fights. The event is just one of many popping up from Manchester to St. Petersburg in a growing European MMA scene. In the first seven days of April, there have already been events in St. Petersburg, Luxembourg, and Mannheim. UFC President Dana White has set a goal of staging the UFC's first mainland Europe event in Germany before the end of 2008. ...