User blog comment:Seicer/Kizaru really it was afraid of benn beckman or he was joking with him?/@comment-5070377-20120506050353/@comment-3425840-20120506095200

I dunno what's going on here, looks like Ultimate Law of Kaitlyn is editing her comments in a strange way!

As for you Jesse: I think Beckman is stronger than Marco is. Why? Because the crew structure of Whitebeard and Shanks are different.

The Whitebeard pirates were centralized towards Newgate who was far superior to any of his underlings (Marco included). The crew were as they liked to say, children to the old man.

However in Shanks' case, it seems they have a structure similar to the Strawhats, that is the elite crew members are near the level of the Captain. Beckman specifically seems like a older brother to Shanks from the looks of it. So in my humble opinion he is much similar to what Zoro is to Luffy.

Since it is hinted that the gap of personal strength between Shanks and Whitebeard is not a big one, it implies Beckman who seems not as far from Shanks as Marco is from Whitebeard, is stronger than Marco is.