User blog comment:AYET/The many defeats of Monkey D Luffy/@comment-4754162-20130702063651/@comment-94.68.151.238-20130702122743

We could say that his first defeat was by Buggy actuallly a bit before he gets defeated by Smoker. While he is in the execution platform he is as helpless as never before and it is the only time till now that he accepted his defeat.

I suppose the latter events have affected Luffy's personality. Now he is feeling more responsible about his crew and he is more bound with them. Now that he has thing to lost, he is confronting defeat in a different way.

K