Golovkin/Stevens, what happened

For the benefit of any who may have missed it on HBO...

Golovkin appears to be a reasonable approximation of an honest to God for real 160-lb version of Duran or something like that. major punching power and major skills and he does not get hit with solid punches.

This was a puncher vs counter-puncher contest and the counter-puncher got wiped. A counter puncher is counting on punchers leaving themselves exposed as they go at least partially off balance throwing hard punches, and Golovkin simply breaks the paradigm. He is always perfectly balanced, always has weight between his feet and not in front of them, generates power with punches which do not require any sort of loading up, and does not leave himself exposed when he throws punches.

Most of the time the counter strokes missed and even in the odd case in which one of them landed, Stevens got the worst of the exchange.