User blog comment:Martialmaniac/How To Steal Your Devil Fruit/@comment-24769684-20150514115058/@comment-5780397-20150515224715

Being the king of underworld trades, it would have been easy for him to find it anyway. Burgess attacked Luffy with a dagger, and being so strong at bare-handed combat, I really think he was trying to kill him, also considering what he said. Still, mine is just a theory.