It
took Nonito Donaire a little over five minutes of all-out
action to unleash the decisive left hook on Fernando Montiel.
It
took the five minutes and 25 seconds
to make the public realize that he is the new owner of the WBC and WBO bantamweight belts.
For
years, Donaire has been targeting the belt Fernando Montiel owned but it seems
that the “powers that be” doesn’t want him to do so. Donaire has been been
baiting the Mexican fighter to stake his crown which Montiel eventually did.
Nonito even predicted a short bout bent to stain Montiel’s championship legacy.
Donaire has been an interim champ but those are the belts you couldn’t even
show off. With Manny Pacquiao having
less and less competition to work on (the consensus mega paydirt is definitely
the Floyd Mayweather fight), The Filipino Flash is poised to give
the public a bunch of exciting bouts against the best fighters of that
division.
Automatically,
Donaire received a USD350,000 purse
while Montiel gets a USD250,000 fee.
This is odd considering that this happened before the fight and Montiel is the
owner of the belts Donaire crave. Donaire is the 2 to 1 odds-on favourite.
So
this basically means Montiel is mere dead meat walking to the ring.
While Ronnie Nathanielsz and Dyan Castillejo made the audio of the
bout unbearable, the action was screaming of awesomeness. The camera work
wasn’t bad but why didn’t the director settled for an arena shot when Donaire
was in the ring thanking the Pinoy nation?
Montiel
was busy deflecting Donaire’s bombs in the first round. From the get-go, The
Filipino Flash is on fire. It seemed though that Montiel was busy looking for
kinks against Donaire’s style. When the left hook came, Montiel was angry at
himself for letting his guard down. At the canvas, he literally looks like a
fish out of water when he struggled to get up. After an initial unsuccessful
attempt, Montiel calmed up and stood but it’s as if he is looking at nothing.
The ref prolonged Montiel’s agony so that the Mexican won’t blame the ref for
stopping the match without his say. But fact is, he was like a zombie when the
match restarted and after two pouncing blows, Montiel is no more.
This
was a fine feat for Donaire as it cemented the fact that he is Pacman’s heir
apparent.
His
monstrous win reminded me of how Pacquiao pummelled Ricky Hatton a couple of years back.
It was
an awesome, awesome win and we are looking forward for many successful title
defenses from The Filipino Flash.
Game
over.
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