There's not a great fighter in history that hasn't had an unexpectedly hard fight (even dropped a loss) in their pomp. It's a testament to Golovkin that he's on a pedestal where he's expected to blow away all his competition. Now obviously the ultra pedantic "fan" will say "all the current middlweights are shit," so lets just step back a generation or two.

Would Golovkin or Jacobs really be considered an easy fight for the top middleweights from recent generations? Hopkins, Taylor, Pavlik, Sergio or Tito, Winky, Joppy, Eastman, Simon, Abraham, Sturm etc.

Hopkins is the bonafide all-time great middleweight from those names, right? Mainly due to longevity not actual particular wins.

So where would Jacobs rank amongst first ballot hall of famer BHop's best middleweight wins?