By Allan Fox: Much has been said about WBA World middleweight champion Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) being a huge step up in competition for the 34-year-old IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) for their fight on March 18, but is he really a step up or perhaps a step down?
Jacobs can definitely punch, and he has a knockout percentage of 88. However, Jacobs has not fought the best of opposition during his career, and you can’t really tell how good he is based on his many knockouts. All you can say is he beat Peter Quillin and lost to Dmitry Pirog.