User blog comment:AYET/Post-TS SHP member vs old pre-TS foe (Part 1)/@comment-4899461-20120716231327/@comment-4754162-20120717032958

I can see your point, the spotlight of swordsman vs swordsman duel belongs to Zoro. If the same were to be applied onto Brook, then we'd lost the authenticity here. Thus (as you have mentioned) generally Brook will be developing (story wise) some other stuffs to aid in his battle, e.g. hypnotism, imbued (cold) element into sword, reattaching lobbed off head, etc rather than straight-up strength and swordsmanship.