Chapter 837

Chapter 837 is titled "Luffy vs. Commander Cracker".

Cover Page
From the Decks of the World: The 500,000,000 Man Arc Vol. 24: "Within the Ruins of a Certain Island: The Red Hair Pirates".

Yasopp and some members of the Red Hair Pirates are reading a newspaper.

Short Summary
Luffy begins fighting with Charolette Cracker who has proven to be a difficult opponent since his Busoshoku Haki is very strong. Nami, is then warned by Brûlée that the worst generation strength are nothing compared to the power of the Yonkou and that some of the members were easily defeated when they tried to invade Big Mom's territory with the exception of Urouge who defeated one of their commanders. Before she could drag Nami into her mirror world, Pound stops her. She warns him that this action signed his death warrent but she was quickly struck by Nami's Lightning Tempo.

Luffy nearly faced defeat from Commander Cracker who commented that Sanji would be better off being a member of Big Mom's family than being with his friends. Luffy, in his anger manages to struck past Cracker's Haki in Gear Fourth and shouts that he shouldn't put words in Sanji's mouth that are not his own.

Chapter Notes

 * Yasopp and some unnamed members of the Red Hair Pirates appear for the first time after the timeskip.
 * Cracker’s sword is called Pretzel, which is one of the best swords in the world.
 * Cracker can use Busoshoku Haki.
 * According to Brûlée, Kid, Apoo, Bege, and Urouge once tried to invade Big Mom's territory, but they all failed.
 * There were originally four Sweet Commanders, until Urouge defeated one of them. However, he was later defeated by Cracker.
 * Brûlée doesn't know that Urouge was able to escape the island with his life intact.
 * Nami defeats Brûlée.
 * Luffy manages to land a hit on Cracker.