No excuses, Donaire is for real
February 21st, 2011
By Gerardo Granados: Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire defeated boxing great Fernando “Ko – Chulito” Montiel by an impressive knockout in two rounds, Montiel fall to the canvas really hurt and seems to had muscular spasm due to the severe concussion he suffered from the perfect left that he received from Donaire.
Fernando Montiel acknowledged his defeat and made no excuses to justify it, to the date he hasn’t made excuses for any of his losses. It is not proper to made excuses for a fighter is the warrior who lost hasn’t made any, so lets be fair and recognize that Donaire won by an impressive and spectacular knockout. This knockout will be considered as a serious contender for the Knockout of the year no doubt, and will be included in the video highlights of Donaire for ever.
Don’t get me wrong, I have never enjoyed seeing any prize fighter getting injured, but the left hook that Donaire connected to Montiel was simply beautiful, Nonito hit Fernando with a sledgehammer and Montiel crumbled without any chances to recover himself, it was by far more impressive than the knockouts of “Iron” Mike Tyson or Thomas “Hitman” Hearns. Tyson gave a beating to many opponents but he was never able to induct muscular spasms to any of them; Hearns demolished Duran with his “right”, Pipino Cuevas was another of his victims who got clobbered by the Hitman; this knockout was even more impressive than the one that Manny Pacquiao inflict to Ricky Hatton.
Let’s recognize that Donaire is the best bantamweight (not only as the new WBO – WBC bantamweight champion), and that he has a genuine chance to unify the division without too many problems. The future looks bright for Nonito, he can achiever bigger things and conquer titles in higher divisions, he has great speed and power but for me it was surprising too see that he can handle top quality fighters with such ease, he has become a great counter puncher, accurate and very smart inside the ring. Perhaps Nonito will engage once more time against Fernando but maybe it will be at a higher weight division.
As I stated in a previous article, for me boxers don’t have nationality, let’s embrace the new boxing star for what he is, not because where does he comes from. Cheers to the new bantamweight king.
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@pact4rdsblow
You are right, I am entitled to my opinion. Am not changing it. By the way, I don’t use foul language.
@eyedoctor
go fvck yourself, i am as entitled to my opinion as you are, i need no doctor.
FAILipinos only started watching boxing since pacsteroids started becoming famous, hence the easiness to be impressed with lesser “styles” of boxing.
And i need an eye doctor to see the size advantage? he has looked like a giant against his last three opponents, hell, I think Vargas was an entire different weight class, and he accepted the fight with very little time to prepare, and at the end of the match donaire was talking sh1t as he had accomplished something significant against an opponent whose size and preparation were a lot less.
And my opinion stands, while it was a hard punch, it lacked any kind of style or class. JUST A HARD PUNCH that happened to hit (see Martinez v Williams, pacsteroids v Hatton for good examples).
Fernando Montiel is one of the best fighter in the business. It need lots of style and preparation not to mention hard physical training to outdo a hard and fast boxer like him.His punches was rated in strenght as a welterweight. He is also one of the fastest bantamweight and Donaire only did what he was supposed to do. I saluted both of them for showing good ethics before and after the fight. They are both gentlemen and will make boxing sport great again. What we need now to help upgrade the business in boxing are resposible and not amateurish sportwriters who were biased and very downgrading.
He is for sure real.And if he can kO Adbeko I will give him that ranking submission ,but there are more qualified than Donaire at this time.donaire can hit with bad intentions but the accuracy is his strong point too.
@ Doc
Unofficial weights on fight night.
Montiel-135
Donaire- 126
Donaire only rehydrated 8 poinds while Montiel added 17.
If you are going to be a detractor, at least get your facts right.
Let us just hope that Nonito doesn’t start cherry-picking broken, has-beens and over-rated fighters and asking them to weight drain. Like that other popular Filipino fighter. LOL.
I’m proud for Nonito’s win, another great champion born.
I’m not against Nonito winning against Montiel, but the way he won it takes away some sort of a better recognition of the win.
I can understand for his happiness, jumping up and down and felling glad that the fight is over and he won…It just makes me see it from his perception of the moment that he was just lucky. To go back to the time that Montiel rose up still groggy
and dazed, fight was resumed, I would have thought that he might be a little bit sporty and not to pounce on the half sleep Montiel, let him recover a little bit. Man the guy is helpless at that time,.
My thought on the matter is that, hey I have established my superiority over you, I knocked you once already, I can do it again and again, and again. That might be the actions of a true champion…as MP said “we are not here to kill each other, we are here to entertain”.
But of course, Donaire was the challenger so he was hungry for the win.
whatever, Mabuhay Nonito!
Donaire is another Gatti in that he has the ability to rehyadrte 15 to 20 lbs between the weigh in and fightnight. I wont be impressed until I see him handle people his own size
Pachaters spill their hate over on to Nonito. What kind of character do this people have? There’s no hope for them to see reality.
@pac4rdsblow Go see an eye doctor or better still, go see a psychiatrist…
Dave Lahr and Francisco Hernandez’s excuse for Montiel is due to weight drain. Fernando Montiel’s “excuse” or actually an admission is that he lost because HE MADE A MISTAKE. That’s exactly is Montiel’s word.
Meh, he needs to fight someone his size, and there was nothing beautiful about the knockdown, it was a good shot that is about it, there was no boxing involved, just a really hard hit, he has no style and a huge mouth.
I’ll record the HBO fight and watch the Showtime PPV. No problem. But I think the Showtime undercards are better the HBO’s,
hey! where is Lhar? hek hek hek
That fool got puched so hard he was still running when he hit the ground. hahahahaha
hahahahaha….. losers !!!! get lost!
Ya,ya,ya.Enough of Donaire.that fight is old news. Talk about some other topic,granados,you moron.The average person don’t even know who Donaire is.
I admire this writer for his balance article, it is true as quoted that respect the boxer for his performance as a fighter and not his nationality and I really admire you for that Mr. Gerardo Granados.
The very first time I read a balance article in this site.
Job well done!!!
Fighters earn more respect when they respect each other. Montiel and DOnaire respects each other and fought like real warriors without stupid demand like RBT blah blah blah. .Montiel accepted defeat without making any excuses, and that proves us that he fought like a real champ.
In this new age of boxing, fans are smarter now that is why Mayweathers fanbase went down the toilet. It is proven that Mayweathers trash talkin style didn’t work against the Pacman, it actually backfired on him Pitiful
i wonder why such a person like Dave and William become a boxing fan, boxing is a true gentlement sport and so should the fans of it. Even Ali and Leonard took a lost in their prime, no such big deal, anything can happen in the ring. And the most important is the true champion is the brave one to take the challenge from the other great one, not like Dave’s buddy Floydy
Just hope that Donaire cleans up the bantamweight division before moving up. Pacquiao also plans to clean up the welterweight division before having a crack on Sergio Martinez (If Sergio keeps winning).
everyone want to see more except dave lahr. he will stay with his writing love affair with montiel
As I said before the fight, these were top fighters… Donaire came out victorious. As a true boxing fan you got to give him all the credit in the world….
he was trying to get up but his senses were out of order momentarily.great left hook, after absorbing a decent right hand.
Accept defeat..
No excuses!
Nice article…
Good job..
Amen!