User blog comment:MarimoSwordsman/Doflamingo/@comment-5640399-20130209165313/@comment-5640399-20130210182540

Jozu fought Kuzan to a stand-still and we have no way of knowing if he would still have lost had he not been distracted by Marco, so I think stopping him dead with next to no effort is pretty impressive. DD also showed no signs of shirking from fights, he got stuck in with some of the more active participants in the war, and yet, by the end, only he, Mihawk and Hancock were entirely unscathed. Simply because we've never seen him in a serious battle doesn't mean we should be suprised by his strength, no one assumes Mihawk is weak despite never having seen him pushed. DD's admiral level to me, HH, a massively powerful DF and a seemingly vast, if, so far, underwhelming crew make him a big time player in NW.