User blog comment:Yountoryuu/Shanks the Annoyingly Awesome Pirate/@comment-188.4.15.53-20110307075256/@comment-3119203-20110307234951

There were three admirals there, and marco was taking on one of them. It would probably have taken the entire crew to fight the Blackbeard Pirates, and by then, all three admirals, plus sengoku could have killed luffy and wiped out the whitebeard pirates