User blog comment:Neowitch/772 - Small Fish in a big Pond/@comment-101.174.139.169-20141230004047/@comment-24850639-20150102000613

That caught my eye too. Oda hasn't revealed many details about Zoro's life post-Kuina, but pre-Luffy. Not gonna overlook it though. I definitely didn't think much of it when he's telling Vivi and Mr. 9 that he'd heard names like that before, but then we find out that Baroque Works tried to recruit him at some point, and furthermore that he knew Daz Bones from somewhere else.

Oda's given us a nice chunk of most of the crew's backstory, but we're far from having the full picture. We know perhaps the most about Luffy; but his actual birth, the relationship between Garp & Dragon, and the circumstances that led to his upbringing with Garp instead are still a VERY big mystery to the series that would seem pretty important now given the rising significance of the D. clan. I'm very excited to see how this turns out, because it seems Oda has plans for them.