User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 770: All The Fights You Never Wanted to See/@comment-99.243.126.199-20141211211825/@comment-24769684-20141213182643

It's not that Luffy is weaker than Bellamy, it's just that he doesn't want to fight Bellamy but Bellamy wants to fight him. If Luffy really wanted to beat Bellamy he would have bitch smacked him like he did on Jaya instead of let himself be hit.