User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 896: After Beating the Mochi, Pop into the Oven/@comment-24850639-20180302165349/@comment-76.68.252.213-20180303211125

Hanata you are a G of G's but I must say that Katakuri never had a worthy opponent to fight in a very very long time. Luffy fights and fucks shit up right before he wins a fight. In this case Luffy has an extremely stong Will and that is to become pirate king and get back to his nakama at the agreed upon time. Luffy is used to eating so much damage becasue he fights and must over come the odds in each fight in order to win. In this situation Katakuri never ever lost a fight and was the commander of an emperor who has so much power so not pany pirates would try to mess with an emperor. Luffy has lost fights before but, overcame extreme odds to get back up and eventually win. For example, when he fought crocodile the first time in the desert he lost and was about to die if Robin didn't save him. My point being Katakuri is not used to taking damage unlike Luffy, so Luffy has a stronger body that is used to taking damage whereas Katakuri doesnt. They fought for an extremely long time, so it is normal to believe the Katakuri was exhausted for taking all this damage that he never experienced before.

Give Oda a break, he is using this fight to lead into something amazing, just wait and you will see. I am sure Luffy will fight Big Mom in Elbaf and that is where this ending will come into fruition.