Orlando Salido vs. Terdsak Jandaeng & Javier Mendoza vs. Ramón García Hirales RBR

Jandaeng is something of a truth machine himself. He loses to anyone higher than B grade, but how someone looks in beating him gives a pretty accurate read on just how good they are.

For instance, a prime Joan Guzman beat him fairly wide on points and dropped him once.

A prime Juan Manuel Marquez tooled him over and stopped him in a violent display of dazzling combination hitting prowess. (though Jandaeng did cause him problems - and facial swelling - with his jab - and showed incredible resiliency in lasting as long as he did)

Steve Luevano - an extremely defensive southpaw and very much a point-scorer, not a brawler (and someone who just leans just barely into straight B and not B minus territory - good enough to have captured a belt and made a few defenses but due to his style and lack of better than 'just decent' quality in his reign not exactly memorable enough to stick out as more than a mere flash in the pan titlist) capitalized on a stylistic advantage over Jandaeng, boxing and moving to wide decision but getting floored with a big left hook along the way on the Pacquiao vs. Marquez II undercard, though he also made Jandaeng walk onto something unseen for a flash KD of his own.

Takahiro Aoh - who probably rates a little above Luevano but still well below prime Guzman & Marquez - beat Jandaeng by a closer decision, without any knockdowns.

Orlando Salido, finally, overcomes a brutal war in which he looked for quite a stretch in the early going to be en route to a KO loss, to pull it out with a sensational kayo in the eleventh after both men had absorbed loads of punishment.

Even if you were (somehow) unfamiliar with the rest of their careers, their results against Jandaeng tell you all you need to know about those five. Prime Guzman = great. Prime Marquez = even greater. Luevano & Aoh = pretty good (and probably benefited a bit from Jandaeng not being comfortable against fellow southpaws, further distancing them from Marquez & Guzman). Salido = somewhere in between the 1st tier and the 2nd; deeply flawed, subject to getting put on his ass when entering frenzied berserk mode, but persistent enough to get up and rally back. Kind of a slightly better, orthodox, and dirtier version of Jandaeng actually (in that both able to pressure or counter, and both have excellent recovery and solid overall chins but enough defensive lapses and proclivity for reckless slugging to get plunked, and both are more than heavy-handed and spiteful-hitting enough to pull off a reversal of fortune in any given fight)

The only real difference is that Jandaeng lacks a notable signature victory at world class level. (which Salido never had either until Lopez I, honestly - though he did clearly beat Guerrero before that only to have it overturned erroneously - and now of course Salido has added Lopez II, Cruz, Lomachenko and Jandaeng to solidify his resume as being among the best "journeymen with double-digit losses who managed to became champs" of his era - surpassing even the highly respectable Cristobal "Lacandón" Cruz, whom Salido beat up in a rematch to claim his first official world title after the Guerrero screw-job but long before Lopez...). Salido would have been it, his certificate of legitimacy - and he damn near got it.