Porous metal fibrous materials is a new type of light porous metal materials and its mechanical properties is one of key performance affecting strongly its application. The paper foucused on the status of the tensile, the shear, the compressive and the impact properties of porous metal fibrous materials and the research progress on the stress wave propagating in the material was briefly discussed. In order to expand the application fields of porous metal fibrous materials, its dynamic shocking performance and the stress wave propagation and attenuation in the material should be studied systemly in the future.