User blog comment:D.Dragon123/What we DON'T like about One Piece./@comment-4605926-20130110113950/@comment-4605926-20130111040148

Hody wasn't that powerful. The only thing that made him able to fight Luffy like that was the huge amount of power drugs he took, and I guess the water helped too.

As for the Conqueror's Haki part - yea I was hoping now that with Haki we're gonna have less problems with struggling against unworthy foes. But nonetheless, Conqueror's Haki still leaves us with the stronger yet still weak opponents.

Also PX, just for the record, presenting Hody as a revolutionary is indeed rather confusing. Personally, I didn't understand at first which low-level revolutionary gave Luffy a hard time. It's true that he tried to make a revolution but usually only the Revolutionary Army's members are referred to as "revolutionaries".