User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Worst Fights/@comment-10543621-20150413013448

I still disagree with people who thought that Pica was nothing but a cowardly douche who kept running away to prolong the fight. I maintain that we were not shown the majority of the fight between Zoro and Pica, and Pica could very well have been trying his best to smash Zoro throughout the entire time, until he got distracted by Diamante being defeated and decided to run off an curbstomp a few weakened people because shit had to be done.

I mean, people see his act of 'hiding behind rocks' and not facing Zoro headon as an act of cowardice. I simply saw it as using his damn powers and making use of his advantages. Obviously he strength lies in his powers that allows him to completely avoid damage while using giant rocks to crush his opponent. It just so happens that Zoro was an opponent he could not crush no matter what. Of course he had to try his best to avoid being cut by Zoro as well, which involves well... Not revealing his real body duh.

As much as it can be seen that Pica was wasting time prolonging the fight by being a coward and running away from Zoro, from his perpective he could have seen Zoro as wasting his time, trying to smash him to no avail because Zoro kept running around like an insect trying to avoid being crushed. He finally gets annoyed and realised that he's wasted too much time on Zoro while the rest of his allies were getting defeated.

In terms of the actual motives and outcome of the fight, I don't agree that Pica was some useless coward. In terms of how the fight was illustrated, sure it might have been a tad boring lacklustre.

Onto the actual topic at hand: Some fights I hated include:

Sanji vs Wanze (I fucking hate the ramen snot dumbass)

Nami vs Kalifa (I didn't actually hate the entire fight, I just hate the fact that Kalifa conveniently forgot that she a super strong superhuman who can move very fast and kick ass just because she gained some bubbly powers).

The whole dragged out thing with Vivi and Mr 9 inside Laboon. Their uselessness was difficult to bare. This is probably due to how hyped up the Grandline has been, being the most dangerous sea and all, and the first 'opponents' the crew faced were complete jokes.

Another issue which really isn't a problem with the fight itself, but just how lacking in progression the opponents are in the sense that only the protagonist crew always seems to be improving and becoming stronger. We often see that when past opponents show up again. Examples include Mr 2, who was shown to be a good match for Sanji. But after spending all that time in level 4 impel down, where he was pretty much constantly training to resist the cold, it deosn't seem like he's improved much. Another example is Hatchan. He's a friggin fishman, who're supposed to be 20 times stronger than humans, has all the experience as a former member of Sun pirates, was shown to fight Zoro, went on to have a lenghthy underwater adventure all the way to the end of the first half of the grandline, and becomes remains pretty much useless.