User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Roger's Equal/@comment-1907764-20110218032108/@comment-3119203-20110223052831

Actually, the elders said that marco and the remains of the whitebeard pirates could take down blackbeard. This means that it takes the entire crew, plus division commanders (jozu, vista, etc) to defeat blackbeard. remember that these same pirates were willing to fight against the World Government and actually caused some damage. And blackbeard takes them all on? Yeah, he can to be weak and still beat them, my ass. And sure garp is strong, but if he was, why didnt he break free if he wanted to kill akainu so badly? I think they are about equal in terms of strength, but garp isnt way stronger than sengoku by any means.