It's not irrelevant. Your point was "It's not Lucci, it's Oda stalling", and my point is "it's not Luffy, it's Oda exposition". Not my fault you don't see that we're both using the author's decision to back up our points...
As to Apoo, Apoo got up after that, Zolo couldn't even defeat him... see how nonsensical you sound?