yeah marco surely held him off.
put the panel for the red dog attack
i might be wrong on that but you have to find the evidence.
"Aokiji can deal more damage because his DF has an advantage over jozu's but in marco's case Aokiji's DF doesn't provide the right counter to marco's abilities hence he would have exert more against marco.. which make his fight with marco more nerve wracking compared to jozu's.."
aokiji does not hold any more of an advantage over jozu that he does not hold against all other people in the verse.
"marco's case Aokiji's DF doesn't provide the right counter to marco's abilities hence he would have exert more against marco"
aokiji went 10 days with akainu in a bad matchup
perhaps you need to realize these admirals were far from going all out.