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Urijah Faber was barely able to walk when he left the ARCO Arena on Saturday after losing a bid for the World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight title in the main event of a magnificent card.

Faber went to the hospital, not the postfight news conference, after losing a unanimous decision to Jose Aldo. He has a very bad bruise on his leg, but is fine and will be able to return.

Faber showed by the way he handled himself in defeat why he's been the WEC's poster boy for the last several years. He's always been an action-first fighter, but he showed his grace under pressure by posting an incredibly classy six-minute video on his website in which he spoke about the fight.

He congratulated Aldo, defended Aldo against criticisms about Aldo's failure to finish the fight, explained his game plan, thanked the fans for their support and promised to fight on.

"It was a tough fight," Faber said on his video. "All the props to Jose Aldo. He's the

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LAS VEGAS – Hardly a day goes by in which Shane Mosley's current nemesis, Victor Conte, doesn't release some piece of derogatory information to the media.

Conte is the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and in 2003, he provided Mosley with two anabolic steroids as well as erythropoietin (EPO) as Mosley was preparing for a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya.

Though he passed the post-fight drug test administered to him after that fight by the Nevada Athletic Commission, Mosley later admitted to a federal grand jury that he had used EPO as well as the steroids that became known as "The Cream" and "The Clear."

Mosley said Conte duped him and Conte insists Mosley knew full well what he was doing. Mosley has sued Conte for defamation of character.

As Mosley has prepared for his fight on Saturday with Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, one of the biggest and most lucrative bouts in boxing history, Conte has flooded the

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ONTARIO, Calif. – Tomasz Adamek used every inch of the 400-square-foot ring at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in his heavyweight bout with Chris Arreola on Saturday before a nationally televised audience on HBO.

Given that Arreola outweighed him by 33 1/2 pounds and punches like he has a horseshoe in his glove, it was the only decision he could make.

Arreola, though, was not quite as taken with it. He derisively called the strategy running after Adamek won a majority decision in a compelling match. Judge Tony Crebs scored it a draw, 114-114, but Barry Druxman had it 115-113 and Joseph Pasquale saw it 117-111 for the Polish fighter. Yahoo! Sports also scored it 114-114.

Adamek trainer Roger Bloodworth smirked when he heard Arreola say that Adamek ran.

"That wasn't running; that was boxing," Bloodworth said.

It was a masterful display of boxing for the largely unheralded Adamek, who extended his win streak to 10 and won for the 41st time

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Chris Arreola's idea of boxing is something similar to the old "Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots" tabletop game. Walk to the center of the ring and begin punching until one or the other's block is knocked off.

Arreola's always spoiling for a fight, the less nuance the better.

When you're 6-foot-4, better than 250 pounds and punch hard enough to knock down small walls, toe-to-toe is the way to go.

Tomasz Adamek doesn't have Arreola's size or power, but he does share the Californian's fighting spirit. And so, when the two meet on Saturday in the main event of an HBO-televised doubleheader from the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif., Adamek insists Arreola won't have to hunt him down.

"I will not run from Arreola," said Adamek, a Poland native who has already held titles at light heavyweight and cruiserweight. "I will be easy to find in the ring if he wants to find me. Why should I exchange punches with Chris, when I can make him miss

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Jim Lampley, in what seemed to be a fit of temporary insanity during the seventh round of the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey fight on March 13 in Arlington, Texas, began to randomly shout "Bang!" as Pacquiao pressed the action.

"Bang Bang" isn't working the HBO-televised show on Saturday at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif., but if ever there was a bout made for Lampley to call, it is the broadcast opener between super welterweights Alfredo Angulo and Joel Julio.

There is no lateral movement with these guys. Feints are nonexistent. There won't be a lot of subtlety on display.

It's going to be boxing's version of the Oklahoma drill, two guys lining up head to head with the more powerful man winning.

As Lampley would say, "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Angulo isn't expecting any different from Julio than he is expecting from himself.

"I'm going to go out to try to take his head off and I think he's going to try to do the

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Tyron Brunson, a young super welterweight fighter from Philadelphia, gained some notoriety in 2008 when he knocked out Francis McKechnai in the first round. It was the 19th consecutive first-round knockout of Brunson's career, setting a modern boxing record.

It was an impressive feat by any measure, but it also needs to be put into perspective. McKechnai, for example, entered the bout with Brunson with a 3-14 record.

In his fight before that, Brunson knocked out the 18-21-1 Jamie Waru in the first. And in the one before that, he stopped Lee Hunter, who was making his pro debut, in the first. Since that 19-0 start, Brunson has gone 2-1-1 and was knocked out in the third round in his last outing by Carson Jones.

Brunson's record is impressive, but no one I know of would consider him one of the elite fighters in the world.

The point isn't to knock Brunson, but rather to point out that the best fighters need to be rewarded for fighting stiff

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Watch the highlight films of Jose Aldo knocking guys out and scrambling their brains and you soon come to the realization that a platoon of armed Navy SEALS couldn't do as much damage to a person as the World Extreme Cagefighting's featherweight champion.

He's deadly with the knees, dangerous with his feet and devastating with his hands.

He's fast, he's strong and he's lethal.

I mentioned to Urijah Faber the other day that Aldo is pretty good and that, well, most of the people I've spoken to are giving him zero chance to win on Saturday in their featherweight title fight in the main event of WEC 48 at ARCO Arena.

Faber, who turns 30 next month, chuckles.

He's not afraid and he's not offended. He's heard it before.

And when he tries to explain why he'll actually show up and not run for the hills, he actually quotes a movie to explain his point: "Dumb and Dumber".

In the scene that inspires Faber, Jim Carrey's character, Lloyd Christmas, is

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The melee that ensued in the cage following Jake Shields' impressive victory over Dan Henderson in Nashville, Tenn., on a Strikeforce card that was televised nationally on CBS was not the finest hour for men like Jason "Mayhem" Miller, Nick and Nate Diaz and Gilbert Melendez, among others.

But the brawl is hardly going to be the demise of MMA on national TV, nor should it be.

It was a preventable and unfortunate incident and the Tennessee Athletic Commission should issue penalties to those involved. Miller had no reason being in the cage, and he had even less of a reason to demand a rematch with Shields, Strikeforce's middleweight champion. Miller lost a title fight to Shields in November and didn't look good in doing it.

The blame for this has to be as much on the Tennessee commission and arena security as on the fighters involved. Commissions around the country allow the cage and ring to be filled with onlookers after fights. Saturday's