The much awaited bout between Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux has come to its conclusion with the Kazakh boxer scoring a technical knockout victory in the 8^th round.

Golovkin now moves to 34-0 with 31 coming via knockout, while Lemieux now stands at 34-3. The fight was also to determine who the hardest puncher in the 160 lbs. division was and as expected, it was Golovkin who emerged victorious.

With that in mind, his coach Abel Sanchez spoke with reporters and he weighed in on the recently concluded match-up. He was also asked who the hardest puncher Golovkin faced so far.

"The kind of fighter David is, as he showed on tapes, we knew he could box him and be effective," Sanchez said to Fighthub via Boxing News 24. "Gennady finally showed that he's got some boxing skills. The other ones had been easier. This one posed a kid of mental threat to him that this guy could do something, but after the first round the jab was so effective that it was difficult for David to do anything."

Sanchez also shared a golden moment during the fight where Golovkin gave him a wink signaling that everything is according to plan.

"He [Golovkin] winked at me and told me 'Coach, I got this.' It's fun to have a guy that goes out there so cerebral," Sanchez said. "That goes out there and figures out what the other guy is doing. In the first round, David didn't come out like I thought he was going to come out. If David had come out hard maybe it would have been a different story."

According to both Golovkin and Sanchez, it was Curtis Stevens who delivered the heaviest blows so far.

"Maybe Gennady doesn't figure him out so early. I said before the fight that Curtis Stevens was the biggest puncher we had faced to date, and this guy [Lemieux] wasn't a bigger puncher. What this guy was; he had a belt. He was the IBF champion, so automatically it makes you better. Better technically, better physically," Sanchez said.

Gennady Golovkin will be facing the winner of the Miguel Cotto vs. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez fight happening on November 21.