User blog comment:AYET/Ready for New World - What does it mean?/@comment-12.106.174.131-20150708135356

If you are going to consider the Doflamingo fight a loss without Law you will also need to look at what Luffy had been through just to fight. He fought Block C against some strong fighters, broke into the palace, ran the gauntlet to get to the moved palace, fought Bellamy, etc... So many times when Luffy finally gets to the main guy he has fought many others. Even though the fight shown was so close at the end, these two fighting at full strength is still a completely unknown.