User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Roger's Equal/@comment-1907764-20110218032108/@comment-3425840-20110219025906

I don't think that Sengoku is weaker than Garp, he alone held off the entire Blackbeard crew and was not injured also he restrained an enraged Garp without even using his devil fruit powers. Tactics alone is not enough to make him fleet admiral. As fo Blackbeard, he has a tendency of being underestimated by everyone of the One Piece world, Ace and Whitebeared are examples of that. Don't forget that even without his fruit powers he managed to injure Shanks, who himself said that he did not let his guard down.