User blog comment:Stone Roger/Can Shanks defeat BB or not?/@comment-1908942-20110206170611

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Pre-Time Skip? No, Teach even admitted it. Post-Time Skip? Well.....Teach was not the World's Most Strongest Man before the TS, but he could make a run for Dragon's spot as the World's Most Dangerous Man, and Shanks is one of, or perhaps the only real person who knows the danger level of a man like Teach being left to his own devices, gaining territory & reputation while working out the kinks of his two Devil's Fruits. Him becoming Pirate King, could not just be for the New World but all of the world in general.

Whereas Teach knows Shanks can be a big obstruction: Say he becomes a Yonkou, defeats Kaido & Linlin, makes it to Rafteal, it would be a pain to him if Shanks came up from behind and tried to stop him.

So, will they fight? I think so sometime in the next (real time) years from now. Who will win? Well, if Blackbeard of the Pirates is to Akainu is the main Marine villain, then perhaps like Ace to Akainu, then Shanks to Blackbeard. Plus, it would be a real tragic scene if Luffy finally met Shanks again, only for him to be on his deathbed, having his other arm completely cut off by a poisoned blade, and saying hello and goodbye to Luffy just as he dies.