User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/All Hail Buggy the Royal Shichibukai/@comment-3060121-20110512195535/@comment-3060121-20110513012808

No but as we all could guess it partly came from him being beaten by Luffy I'm guessing. Maybe his total performance during the war was not good enough. If his performance at the war wasnt amazing maybe other pirates were less afraid of him. Who knows, by the fact that he escaped Doflamingo and a group of Pacifista shows he was powerful.