User blog comment:AYET/Three strikes and yer out/@comment-5387880-20130206133154

I believe right now Smoker is at his worst, because his opponents really made a HUGE improvement in the 2 years while he didn't improved almost at all in the timeskip,so even if they were weaker than him before the timeskip now that they learned Haki and improved their techniques can defeat him. So I believe after this arc finishes we will make a lot time to see Smoker because he will be training, at some point I believe he will make a huge comeback.