User blog comment:Ultimate Law of Kaitlyn/Why I think Crocodile losing to Luffy was a fluke/@comment-4866818-20120610214242

Crocodile has a ton of more experience than Luffy ever has, ULoK. Surprised you didn't put that in because it does count with intelligence, and with good experience it means you're more knowledgeable about certain things and thus knows what you're doing. Aside from that, yes, pretty much everything else is right unless I got bored of reading and cut out some stuff you said.

In all aspects, Crocodile is a person who knows what he's doing and has the strength and will to back him up. When fighting against Luffy, the East Blue native was on the verge of death twice and only won at the end out of sheer dumb luck and some sense of logic, IMO. Against everyone at Marineford (just to keep it short), I'm sure we can agree he played pretty good and may have actually won.

But this is One Piece. Like almost every damn shonen, you see the main character kicking ass on all the villains and making new allies all the time. Mihawk says its a "dangerous ability". Dangerous, yes, because in the end the power of his Nakama drives Luffy forward to win. And Luffy fought against Crocodile for Vivi and her country. He had that to help him get "stronger", plus some "sleep" because he fought Crocodile earlier before their final battle in Alabasta. The whole use of "blood" was merely just a convenience he had, IMO.

So yeah, the whole battle was a fluke.