User blog comment:D.Dragon123/If the Whitebeard began 2 years later?/@comment-3119203-20111103223936

This is a tough one, but I still think that the Whitebeard Pirates would lose in the end. Luffy would still be beaten up from Impel Down, so he might be able to do more damage but the result would be similar. Ace may have gotten away, but I dont think that Whitebeard would have been so lucky.