By Carlos Boogs
WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs) felt he was on a different level as nearly every jab, every counter was connecting on David Lemieux (34-3, 31KOs) for practically every second of their three title unification bout.
The fight was finally waved off by the referee in the eight round, as Golovkin was pounding away before a crowd of over 20,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
There were plenty of moments in the fight where Lemieux looked amateurish, lunging in with missed punches and getting easily picked off.
"I think today for David, he went to school...boxing school. [It's a] different class. He's strong, he's a champion, [but it ] was a different class," Golovkin said.
Golovkin's trainer Abel Sanchez, predicting several weeks ago that his fighter's skill level was far above the physical talents of Lemieux.
"Like we said a few weeks ago, on a conference call, the difference was going to be the IQ, the guy thats a lot smarter in the ring. David was lunging, getting hit with shots that maybe another fighter would not have hit him with but Gennady is on another level like I've been saying," Sanchez said.
