User blog comment:Videogamep/One Piece Fillers/@comment-3177613-20131222155631/@comment-2226235-20131229032910

What I meant when I said that the Davy Back Fight might as well be filler was that, aside from the fight with Aokiji, nothing from it had any impact on the story and it is possible to skip it without missing anything important to the story as a whole. There is no other cannon One Piece arc like that.