@Psycrow:
I think the biggest surprise of the chapter was this:
Doflamingo's plan to deal with Luffy was to lure him into the Colosseum with Ace's fruit and have Diamante beat him.
Luffy can KO an island-sized Kraken, bust through entire structures, and has haki harder than any metal that Diamante can fold, which wouldn't help much against blunt force anyway.
Diamante, IMO, is about as big a threat as the very first bosses Luffy faced, such as Axe-hand Morgan.
And Luffy has gone through countless power-ups since beating them. He's basically Superman at this point.
But this was Doflamingo's plan.
lol if your naive enough to believe that Luffy would have had an easy time against Dimante, and even if he did (which he wouldn't) Jesus Burgess would have kicked his ass in two seconds, ever wonder why Oda had Luffy switched out with Sabo, the guy who we can assume stayed ace's equal because of the scene Oda specifically put showing them having the same amount of wins and Luffy having zero (not that Luffy won't surpass him eventually)
Even Sabo himself has made note of Jesus Burgess as a tough opponent
and also you don't seem to comprehend what an advantage it is to control the very ground your opponents walk on, and bend it and shape it to your will, and all that surrounds them is water (and encase you didn't remember Luffy has a devil Fruit… which doesn't work well with water) Dimante is not going to be easy at all, Luffy a guy who just goes in and hits stuff would probably find himself in a lot of trouble against dimante, who has more a thinking mans DF
I have no doubt that if the two of them fought it out in a place not made to Dimante's advantage, that Luffy would win, but it would still be a tough match, idk why people are looking down on these executive officers who have been extremely built up to be overbearingly tough
Vergo was a beast who only lost because he underestimated what law was capable of doing, the fight would go extremely differently if they fought again
Dimante is going up against two endgame level players, Sabo and Jesus Burgess, and he's not gonna get K.O'd quickly after this much build up.... Basically he's a tough mother fucker
Pica will probably give Zoro his first all out fight of the new world
and Trebol has to be pretty highly prized when you have all these tough guys and Doflamingo chooses him to guard his most valuable asset
and let's not forget, law himself is supposed to be an executive officer, Law one of Luffy's biggest rivals is the same rank as these guys
that alone should show you how tough these guys are and how ridiculously powerful Doflamingo must be to be their boss and how frighteningly terrifying Kaidou must be to scary Dofla that bad