User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Roger's Equal/@comment-1907764-20110218032108/@comment-1907764-20110223012306

the gorusei says that marco is one of the few pirates that can take down blackbeard his name is stated seperately from the rest of the whitebeard pirates thus being acknowledge as a particularly powerful individual amongst the whitebeards crew the gorusei did not say marco with the rest of the crew