Paul Daley appears to be ready to hang up in the gloves and walk away from fighting in MMA. The Bellator welterweight recently spoke about his next Bellator fight that's taking place in May.

Paul Daley has competed in MMA for a long time and has been very important for the sport in England. He wants to walk away in his home country in front of the right crowd.

“May 13 will be last one,” Daley said Monday on “The MMA Hour.” “It will be my retirement fight after many years in the game – the hours on the road, the hours in the gym have caught up with me. And now every day, I wake up with a bad back and I’m just tired. Most definitely (I’ll retire). I’ve put a lot of time in the sport, and I’m in a position to retire, fortunately. … I don’t want to be one of those fighters who’s getting knocked out all the time by the younger guys. I want to be the guy that goes out when I want to go out.”

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The retirement from MMA isn't exactly a surprise. Paul Daley has been thinking about it for a long time, things have been going well with Bellator and he wanted to wait for the right time.

“I’ve been planning for it for a long time,” Daley said. “I’ve had a lot of fights. Bellator has treated me well while I’ve been there, and I always knew it was going to be my last promotion. I’ve put things in place so that when I do call it a day, I can do so comfortably.

“(Sabah) Homasi was going to be my last fight, but Bellator put it in America and I don’t think the U.K. at the time was allowing shows … Then they offered Jason Jackson with title implications, so I took that fight and that didn’t go my way. I owe it to my fans and my family to have this last fight over here in the U.K.”