User blog comment:Jrotc193/Everybody love a good villain/@comment-5387880-20130811214943/@comment-4605926-20130813134759

Blackbeard is certainly a top notch villain. Powerful, treacherous, cunning and what not. Now that you put it all together, he really has achieved quite astonishing feats.

AWC - He said 3rd strongest (1. Whitebeard, 2. Marco, 3. Ace) not 3rd commander (1. Marco, 2. Ace, 3. Jozu), that would be Ace.