User blog comment:12th Supernova/Chapter 743 discussion/@comment-4904935-20140405000812/@comment-1595565-20140405011440

To say Kyros had surprise on his side would be putting it lightly. That, coupled with the stuff he was thinking about doesn't put the idea into the realm of impossibility. Not to say that that's what happened, just that the circumstances were present. I sort of saw it as karma for what he did to Crocodile and Oars Jr. at Marineford.