Fernando Montiel's heart is otherworldly!!!!!!

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

dude, his fit on the ground was him trying to get up, he was trying to fight through being not able to send the message of what his brain wanted to do verses what his body was trying to do, true heart.

as far out of it as he was, i truly think that montiel was still with it and knew what he was trying to do, he just had his bell rung like no other and couldn't shake it. truly amazing. i just hope he's ok, he's one of my favorite smaller fighters.

donaire just showed how much of a real deal he is, and i don't buy the whole, donaires too big, this, that, and the other argument, his height has nothing to do with his making weight, it's weight classes not height classes, and donaire, i think, is making his way up in the classes the right way, one at a time, and in no rush. now he can start to speed things up by fighting the top dogs in and around his weight.

i'm a guy that loves fighters who hold onto one weight class and clear it out, and make themselves a mainstay in the division, but in the smaller classes, that is next to impossible, unless you're a truly small guy, but athletes at the smaller weights are always going to go up in weight, it's inevitable.

Bruh. I'd green you for the bolded alone(I ran out for the next 24). Donaire came in just as you should when you are in your proper weight class. He only rehydrated 8 pounds. You barely see that nowadays in the lower weight-classes. Donaire was a true BW last night.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

That was the miexican in him!. props for him for getting up somehow!.

hele fight and win again soon.

The guy is mexican. His body is born to fight.His body only knows one thing.Is to keep fighting.

exactly bro

Yeah that ****t was crazy, my wife was screaming and stuff when he started convulsing but that mother****er got up, thats Mexican heart right there!!!

I call it a fighter's heart. No matter the race, if you're a born fighter thats the heart you're gonna display.

[Repeddled]

Unbelievable it was muscle memory that brought him to his feet.

Its a bit misleading to say it was his heart as his brain was in complete sense of shock and turned on all defence mechanisms (kicking etc) The last thing it wants to do is get up. But getting up is whats implanted in his muscle memory.

But the whole notion of a 'heart' is metaphorical as its all in the brain itself. So i guess in this case he displayed some extraordinary features of human physiology.

summing up yes he showed great heart

[americanbot]

that looked like A similar shot bradley got hit with against holt.

to be honest montiel is a lot more fragile then one may have thought (as a world class fighter) I've never seen someone have a mini fit in the ring like that before. his docter need to check that out......WTF.

[Lorily]

Exactly! Just like how Maidana got up from a liver shot that few fighters get up from. His body said "no, no, no" where his heart said "yes, yes, yes". Without heart, no fighter gets up from shots like that.

And not to change the subject in any way, but along the same lines of heart - Just as how Soto-Karass kept fighting on with barely a whimper after each accidental headbutt occured in the fight with Jones (btw it wasn't really either fighters fault specifically, it just happens) - you see so many fighters these days with far less cuts, claiming that they can't go on and fininsh a fight.

Fighters with heart is what makes them special in my eyes, and makes them a far more exciting fighter to watch then one who takes the easier way out when things get a bit out of whack.

[ippo]

I call it a fighter's heart. No matter the race, if you're a born fighter thats the heart you're gonna display.

Unbelievable it was muscle memory that brought him to his feet.

Its a bit misleading to say it was his heart as his brain was in complete sense of shock and turned on all defence mechanisms (kicking etc) The last thing it wants to do is get up. But getting up is whats implanted in his muscle memory.

But the whole notion of a 'heart' is metaphorical as its all in the brain itself. So i guess in this case he displayed some extraordinary features of human physiology.

summing up yes he showed great heart

I would of said it was heart also, liek the guy above you.But his body was on auto pilot so that wasn't heart.He wasn't even there.

[TheKza]

that looked like A similar shot bradley got hit with against holt.

to be honest montiel is a lot more fragile then one may have thought (as a world class fighter) I've never seen someone have a mini fit in the ring like that before. his docter need to check that out......WTF.

Fragile my a$$. Other fighters would have been asleep for the next week if they took the shot Montiel did.

[-Antonio-]

I couldn't believe he got up. I thought he was convulsing on the ground at first. I jumped up went ohhhh! and walked out of the room, came back and he was up, my jaw dropped.

Of course it was still over, but damn that was Jason like.

[Trenchant]

I'm glad you made this thread, I don't believe the announcers didn't make a bigger deal out of the fact that he got up. Roy Jones gave him his props for getting up though! I like Roy as an announcer. Montiel getting up from that was the most impressive recovery I've probably ever scene! I think as soon as his eyes came back, he rolled over and saw what was going on and then he knew he needed to get up and could see the ropes and that he was on the cavas. But the ref made the right call, Donaire would have just overwhelmed him with a 40 punch flurry and he would have called the fight 5 seconds later, no use letting Montiel get hurt. I think they should rematch though, I don't think this means that Montiel is that much more superior, he just had the right strategy.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

Exactly! Just like how Maidana got up from a liver shot that few fighters get up from. His body said "no, no, no" where his heart said "yes, yes, yes". Without heart, no fighter gets up from shots like that.

And not to change the subject in any way, but along the same lines of heart - Just as how Soto-Karass kept fighting on with barely a whimper after each accidental headbutt occured in the fight with Jones (btw it wasn't really either fighters fault specifically, it just happens) - you see so many fighters these days with far less cuts, claiming that they can't go on and fininsh a fight.

Fighters with heart is what makes them special in my eyes, and makes them a far more exciting fighter to watch then one who takes the easier way out when things get a bit out of whack.

BEAUTIFUL example Lo!!!!!!! I've been watching Boxing for bout 30 years, and I've NEVER seen a fighter take a flush liver shot and beat a 10 count.