With all the hype around Xebec and the supposed W pending for Roger at GV.
What if all these build up is Oda trying to gassed Garling instead..
He is the only relevant old guy in the show at the moment that is still save for later.
But for real.
I'm convinced Imu is 100% involved.
Controlling or giving power to Garling and finishing off Xebec could be one of the possibility.
Garp doesn't like to talk about his heroic GV achievement, some say because he needs to protect CD which he dispise, or he was teaming up with Roger etc
But overall he isn't satisfied with that battle, which shows there might by fishy thing going on.
Roger likely the one to beat him, but till the end of the day until we saw GV in detail, i won't believe it's a pure 1v1 match.
Luffy have a rare pure 1v1 win, we probably won't 1v1 Imu or EoS BB either, somebody will be involve like that's always the case.
Same goes for Roger beating Rocks