@Chrior:
I understand the comparison, but remember that the East Blue is considered the weakest sea. West Blue seems to be an area with stronger kingdoms, armies, pirates, etc. Which would make controlling it all a much harder task than the backwater where Luffy is from. There is some admiration for the Germa from guys like Vito, for example. Brook knew them as well. Their achievment has to be something relatively important in the scope of the One Piece world. But it is indeed hilarious that they only did it for 66 days and spent 300 years failing to get it back and being famous due to a propaganda cartoon.
Wow, Vito and Brook. If there's two guys whose word I would take seriously about threats, it's Vito and Brook lol.
I'm sorry. Ruling for two months is rather fine. I'm just being a jerk for the sake of it. And while West Blue seems to be a tougher sea, you need to take into account two things. One is that Arlong came from the Grand Line. He only came to the weakest to stay low until he had enough maps to take over more territory from underwater. And two, old school Germa didn't have advanced genetic splicing tech, so it goes without saying that nobody as strong as the Vinsmoke siblings were a part of Germa (not that Judge still can't be decently tough in his own right).
It's important in history, sure. But at this point in the series… Honestly, I'm just laughing at how I saw some comments on other forums that were expecting Sanji's father to be Admiral level lol.