User blog comment:Ghmorello/Chapter 925: The King And Queen Of Thanksgiving/@comment-7614831-20181124181523

So I had this pet theory (a dream, if you will) pre-Timeskip that Gekko Moriah would escape his death by pacifista and resolve to also train for two years, return to a more dynamic fighting style (i.e. properly fighting hand-to-hand combat instead of sitting around, letting his doppelganger do the fighting) and prove himself to be the decisive figure against Kaido during the inevitable Kaido arc in the New World.

Now, here we are, a few years later in both the real and One Piece worlds, and Moriah has finally turned up during that inevitable Kaido arc...and it looks like he's literally done nothing with his life in those two years -_-

Will he still prove a decisive figure against Kaido? Well, maybe, but the way things look now he'll either do so as a subordinate of Blackbeard, or he's been shoe-horned into the stroy as a relatively disposable, high-status character to demonstrate the Blackbeard pirates' fruit-stealing abilities. Whatever happens, good luck to him -_-