By Edward Chaykovsky

Abel Sanchez, trainer for WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), expects his fighter to get a dominant win on March 18th, when he makes a mandatory defense against Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs).

The HBO Pay-Per-View fight takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Last year, the World Boxing Association ordered the fight in an effort to merge some of their existing titles in the weight class. Jacobs holds the WBA's "regular" title at 160-pounds. The winner may one day have to face WBA-interim Hassan N'dam.

The fight was first discussed in 2014, but at the time Jacobs wanted to make a few defenses of his WBA "regular" title before matching his skills with Golovkin.

 "When Danny first became [secondary] champion [in 2014], he talked about how he wasn't ready for the elite," Sanchez said. "And for the last couple of years he really hasn't voiced wanting to fight Golovkin, because he understood that he needed some fights. The WBA ordered it, and then he started talking like a champion should talk, like he really wants to fight Gennady," Sanchez told ABC News.

Golovkin has more than his fair share of critics. Many of them believe the hard middleweight puncher has built his record on an assortment of lackluster opponents.

Most critics will agree that Jacobs is the toughest opponent of Golovkin's career. Once Golovkin "easily" defeats Jacobs, says Sanchez, the veteran coach wants those same critics to give GGG his proper credit.

"I think -- I hope -- in the aftermath of the fight, the guys that are bad-mouthing Golovkin for not fighting nobody go back and read the articles [that will come out in] the next couple of months about what a tough opponent this is going to be for Gennady, how this guy has all the tools to beat Gennady, because after he beats him and beats him decisively and easily, I hope he gets the recognition he so richly deserves," Sanchez said.

Jacobs has bounced back strong after suffering the only loss of his career, a 2010 fifth round knockout at the hands of Dmitry Pirog. Since then, Jacobs peeled off twelve consecutive wins and all of them by knockout.

Sanchez has a lot of respect for Jacobs' skills.

"I think he's the most gifted, the best athlete, the best puncher, a sharp puncher, that can crack," Sanchez said. "He can box. He had a mishap with [Dmitry] Pirog but he is absolutely the best fighter, period, that we have fought."