Daniel Jacobs vs. Caleb Truax

Club fighter is pretty harsh.

If we had a real organized system the equivalent of the UK's "area/country/British/Commonwealth" ladder (with those outgrowing it graduating to European title ambitions or eventually World, if they've got what it takes), I think you would say Truax were comparable to anyone in the upper echelon, as in he is clearly beyond city/state/regional level and is among the best of the domestic crop barring those good enough to be in the world title mix. So if there were "American champs", for instance, that would be his level.

I mean, there are the NABF and stuff like that but nobody pays them any mind here, not the way the UK honors its procession of titles.