User blog comment:Naruichi96/Lucci the 7th Shichibukai??!!! Marco the 10th Blackbeard Crew captain??!!!/@comment-24799733-20140411214808/@comment-5391752-20140416140848

AdSu you look like quite the fan of Marco, are you? Anyway, he doesn't seem to hold the kind of influence WB himself had, so that's probably why they didn't keep the Yonko title.

If it was Marco who died in the war instead of Ace, I think things might be different - but that's just a big 'what if' scenario.

Still, I don't think BB would hold hostages to blackmail Marco. It'd be easier to kill Marco, steal his power, and give it to someone else. But we don't know for sure :p