The most explosive fight in years - Golovkin v Lemieux

[Beanz]

Gonzalez was brilliant. Sheer poetry at times, as if he was creating an already imagined masterpiece, and that is no way underplaying the more than game performance of Viloria.

Golovkin did what he always does and took his opponent to pieces. I think part of the reason he looks so dominant in doing so is that he and his coach really study each opponent and they are often not given credit for doing so. He creates space and time to work because he really is not so heavy handed that he is in the habit of finishing things with one punch ( although his body shots nearly always signal the end being near if not immediate), and so he hammers his opponents into the corner of his own workshop, and they forget that they are there to earn a living. It's not so much that they are caught up in admiring his work, but more that he leaves them little light in which to figure out how to start. He hits thunderously hard at range and mixes it up beautifully up close, that's a rare and winning combination.