Queen was only allowed to suffer actual pressure from Big Mom previously to Onigashima's raid, no one else could touch him, not even Luffy.
I mean that is Aokiji we are talking about, it's not a shame he lost, it's about the portrayal.
Queen was in his stupid Full Zoan Form in which he can't even defend himself - so BM just tossed him around and Queen tanked it and got back up like nothing happened. Later also cracked her head and almost knocked her out lmao.
Queen was shown as inferior, but he was neither going all out nor was he taken out by BM, which is really good portrayal considering he is a YC vs a Yonkou.
Pizzaro just got no diffed in 0.1 seconds. That is terrible portrayal, especialy considering he is supposed to be a later fight for Sanji (by some people), which means he should be above Queen by quite a bit. And that does not show it.
But at the same time, you have other characters that did not get no diffed by Aokiji, like Laffite for example.
It's only expected that one of Sanji's final opponents don't get treated like that... But he tanked Garp's punch to the face quite well u know..
His treatment overall is not great. Tanking Garps attack is his only good showing, even tho i am pretty sure the damage doesn't transfere 100% to him, based on how his arm got completely destroyed, but he was ''only'' bleeding and the crack sfx was there, so probably his bones got cracked.. Sure you can say Oda wouldn't make his arm explode, but the damage on his real arm still looked far less crazy than what happened to his stone arm.
We also had Capone tanking several of BM's punches and this guy is only a 300mil guy.
And speaking of portrayal, Pizzaro got his arm blown off by Coby...the guy who called Kyros really strong...also seing how many people could blow parts of Pica away, Luffy's G3, Don Chinjao, the King Punch Guy, Sai didn't hit Pica directly, but he damage the mountain where Doffy's house was quite a bit and Zoro.
Outside of Luffy and Zoro, those guys are not really strong and yet they could stil perform that well.
I bring that up, because many people say nobody in the SH's could deal with him outside of M3 - i would agree, but if we think about where the Mid Trio is gonna be at the time they face the BB's, there could be big improvements. And if those not so strong characters from DR can perform similiar feats, i don't think it would crazy to think someone from the Mid-Trio could do something similiar.
Maybe Yamato joins at that point or somebody else. It's also not quaranteed that every SH's is gonna get a 1 vs 1. Pizzaro might be a team effort.
The simple fact is, why would Sanji fight someone with such bad portrayal, getting no diffed in 0.1 seconds by Aokiji, getting his arm blown off by Coby, being threatened by another Crew member and scolded by BB and acting pretty pathetic during it.
Sanji's matchups always got good portrayal and are lifted above the others before Sanji fights them.
Based on that the best fit for that is Laffite, who got no L's (hate this term...) what so ever. But somehow a guy with better portrayal and no L's would fight a Weak-Trio member? It simple doesn't make any sense.
Aokiji would be the best one, but his position is questionable.
given he these guys are going to keep going stronger
I don't think they will. They are all in or past their prime and got only stronger when they got a DF, but some of them might already had their DF before joining BB.