Jesus Burgess

Jesus Burgess (ジーザス･バージェス, Jīzasu Bājesu), nicknamed "The Champion", claims himself a champion because he stands on top of buildings and challenges random people to fights. He is the Helmsman of the Blackbeard Pirates.

Appearance
Jesus Burgess is a big, muscular man, with big arms and legs that are quite thin in comparison. He has light-brown hair reaching down to his shoulders, and always wears a dark brown-mask, with orange decorations on it, covering the upper part of his face, but revealing his eyes and his nose. He appears to be based off of Mexican wrestlers, as both his name and face mask are Spanish in origin. He wears a sleeveless black shirt and a pair of white pants with ruffles coming from the base then reaching up to his knees; he also wears black bands tied around both elbows. Jesus also appears to be always wearing a championship belt, a belt which wrestlers only obtain from winning many matches or to show that they are extremely skilled in wrestling. It is unknown if Jesus obtained this belt from his mastery in wrestling or if its just there for his wrestler appearance look.

Personality
Burgess is brutish and ogre-like, though is also very loud and overbearing. He has a serious nature, after scolding Blackbeard for laughing when they lost the Straw Hat Pirates. He seems to be overconfident, as he climbed buildings and challenged random people in Jaya, proclaiming himself as the Champion. He also appears to have an intense love of combat, wanting to test his skills out on anyone he finds. Sometimes he says "WIIIIHAHAHAH!" when talking to someone in his crew or using it in a sentence, possibly a signature laughter.

Abilities and Powers
Burgess possesses incredible physical strength. He defeated every challenger he fought in Mock Town and threw an entire hotel at Ace across a great distance while jumping high to reach his target. During the battle of Marineford, he was seen using a pistol against Whitebeard.

Mock Town
He was first seen bending over a defeated man complaining about his strength. Another man then noted it and asked if he knew that he had defeated a man from Roshio's crew. Later, after Luffy had taken one of Doc Q's apples, he was seen standing on top of a building yelling out for decent challenge.

After Bellamy was defeated by Luffy he met up with his crew and asked about Lafitte and why he wasn't there. When their raft was destroyed by the Knock Up Stream he complained about his captain's easy going attitude towards their failure.

Banaro Island
After Ace and Van Auger attacked one another he was quick to throw a building at Ace that was easily destroyed. Later on he alongside the other crew members witnessed the fight between Blackbeard and Ace, but not before moving to a much safer location, where he and Auger had to comically pull the very sick Doc Q, along with his horse.

Impel Down
Burgess has recently been seen at Impel Down unexpectedly with the rest of the Blackbeard pirates.

After exchanging some words with Impel Down's mass breakout army, Burgess and the rest of the crew are caught and poisoned by Magellan's Hydra technique. Later, the whole crew is saved by an antidote from former Chief Guard Shiryuu, who accepts Blackbeard's offer and joins their crew.

Current Events
Burgess is spotted along with the other members of the Blackbeard Pirates on the execution platform where they were watching the events that unfold on the battlefield. Currently he and the others came to Marineford because they wanted to witness Whitebeard's death. He joined his crew in striking Whitebeard, barraging him with bullets.

After Whitebeard dies, Burgess assists his crewmates in covering Whitebeard with a black cloth and guards Blackbeard as he starts his demonstration of his powers. Burgess and the other Blackbeard Pirates are then attacked by a shockwave created by Sengoku in his Buddha form. After his captain destroys more of Marineford, he tells Blackbeard if he goes too far they would lose their footing. When Red Hair and his crew arrive on the scene, he later seen departing with his crew.

Translation and Dub Issues
On the original TV Broadcast of the FUNimation dub, Burgess' family name was changed to "G. Zess", keeping the phonic pronunciation, but changing the actual spelling. This was done presumably to keep from offending TV viewers due to the religious link from the name "Jesus", similar to the renaming of "Mr. Satan" from Dragon Ball Z to "Hercule".

Upon the release of FUNimation's "Season Three First Voyage" DVD set featuring Burgess for the first time, it was confirmed in the Japanese version subtitles and "Sign and title" subtitles for the dub that on the uncut DVDs, his name has been restored to "Jesus Burgess".

Trivia

 * His name is perhaps based on that of real life pirate, Samuel Burgess.
 * He has a unique laugh, being Wiiiihahaha