User blog comment:Red HAired Shanks/Does Shichibukai deserve their status as one of the 3 Great Powers????/@comment-3119203-20101125052651

I was thinking the same thing, because whitebeard could easily handle a shicibukai, and his fifth division commander was able to take on mihawk. Kuma and doflamingo are pretty good, but the rest kind of suck. Everone says Mihawk is awesome, but being able to slice big stuff really isnt that good. And, like you said, two of them were taken down by luffy, who is no match for the admirals. If the marines and the shicibukai went head to head, shicibukai would lose badly. As for the Revoultionaries being the new power, there is no way that is going to happen. The WG wants more control, so they have two powers under their command. The revolutionaries are too unpredictable, and why would the WG promote someone who is trying to destroy them?