By Francisco Hernandez: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – Last night at the Mandalay Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, a pale looking Fernando Montiel looked too weak and stale, extremely slow and stiff to put up much of a fight against Nonito Donaire. Montiel had the effervescence of a stale Corona beer that has been left open for a few days. Rumors had spread before the fight that Fernando was not able to make the bantamweight limit any longer and was over training to an extreme to try and make the weight limit. The effects of over training and draining himself to make weight were obvious as Montiel could barely move; he appeared rigid, stiff, and his punches looked untypically slow and weak. This was not the Montiel that fans expected to see. What fans saw was the shade of Montiel.

Nonito Donaire claimed after the fight that he has super powers because he is able to stop reality; he is able to somehow make everything go in slow motion like the characters in the Matrix film, which enables Donaire to outbox his opponents. I got news for the delusional Donaire –you don’t have superpowers, you need meds. Let me tell you, Montiel threw such a weak and slow straight right that even a turtle could have countered that punch. You don’t need superpowers to counter such a slow and weak punch.

Fernando Montiel has been talking about moving up to the super bantamweight division, but he should consider retiring from boxing altogether, moving up in weight will not counter the ill effects on his body of forcing it to fight at a lower weight than is natural for his body, with age this catches up to you, it caught up to Montiel last night, just like it will eventually catch up to Donaire who should really be fighting at Lightweight.

Last night’s fight was disappointing not because Montiel lost, but because fans expected it to be a competitive fight, a war that would be hailed as one of the best fights of this year. What we got was a physically deteriorated fighter gets kayoed by a physically bigger opponent, and very little boxing quality. This fight was not like the fight between Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams, which even though it lasted two rounds was competitive until the knockout.

Expect Nonito Donaire to go into hiding for the next three years, fighting only low quality opponents just like he did after he beat Vic Darchinyan, waiting until one of the world champions with a name gets old like Fernando Montiel.