@warismydestiny:
not saying that burgess isnt strong but that doesnt mean shit every single two bit villian plus there mother is overconfident in both themselves and there subordinates and always underestimating the good guys in shonen
how about the fact that Sabo is probably tougher than Luffy and seemed to take note of Burgess
and the major thing here is Burgess can't lose to bad here, I've said it a million times (and I'm not the only one saying it) Burgess is an endgame villain, the first subordinate of the final bad guy of the series, he's been put here to build hype for the final fight and having him lose in a pathetic fashion would extremely ruin hype for the final battle of the series, that's why no mater if it was Luffy or Sabo it doesn't make sense to have Burgess get anything other then an out of bounds while putting up a tremendous fight, and still being visibly conscious at the end
I had assumed if it was Luffy Burgess would have put on a show and then Luffy would have given an all out gear 3rd assault while Burgess puts up a guard and knocked Burgess out of the ring, with Burgess then commenting on how tough he's gotten but not being visibly tired or hurt or something along those lines
With Sabo I don't know what to expect, the only thing I do expect of a sabo vs Burgess match is them to both acknowledge how amazingly strong their opponent is and probably get interrupted by Dimante
seriously though Dimante's power adds a whole new level of challenge to this fight, when the very ground they need to stay on to stay in the match can be twisted and turned into weapons against them or just make the ground go out from under them, can't wait to see how Oda does this fight
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@Spam286:
Yeah but Franky saw Burgess's block and he just said something along the lines of 'oh maybe it won't be so easy after all'. Doflamingo was confident in Diamante and Luffy was confident in Sabo so basically everybody's got somebody who's confident in them except Rebecca and Barto. Which means one of those two will win the fruit.
I would really love to see Sabo and Burgess knock each other out of the ring at the end and have Rebecca win the tournament, and see the hate that follows