I honestly think that Oda did plan to have Usopp and Carrot beat Jack and Pero like I predicted. I was saying that Jack would be so weakened after beating Inu that even Usopp, with a power up, would be able to drain the last of his HP, and in this chapter, Jack does talk about how his HP is so low that one more clean hit would finish him off. I said that Pero would win due to the moon being blocked out, and the moon did get blocked out. However, Oda was receiving complaints about how the arc has gone on for too long, and he and his bosses know that One Piece’s 12 year old casual fans only care about seeing the M3 fight, so Oda put Jack and Pero on the chopping block