User blog comment:Dandalore/Your Shichibukai/@comment-3119203-20110202060535/@comment-3401636-20110206052246

no, it's cuz that's what his DF power allows him to do, if he goes up against anyone with any other DF fruit, he'll die, maybe, just maybe, he can fend himself off normal people who don't have any DF/Haki or equivelent.