I’ve thought about this scenario more times than I can count, I can’t deny the matchups are super convincing. When I consider the BB pirates obsession with devil fruit power and the ambiguity surrounding Kuzan it always felt hard to believe them actually toppling the RHP and Oda keeps interfering with their meeting I feel like for a reason, the Strawhats would have truly proved themselves as yonko by defeating them. The Crossguild situation as well really makes you think, 100% they were put together so Zoro can realistically run into Mihawk as an adversary without deterring the crew’s journey, as well as as getting Buggy to compete with Shanks and Luffy by connecting him to strong people, his strongest man literally used to rival Shanks. I also always used to think who’s going to be the big shot pirate for Sanji to take on and Beckman is actually a perfect idea they actually share some similarities on the surface, they smoke, they’re ladies men, they’re meant to stand shoulder to shoulder with their boss while not being people with big titles or status, and what’s interesting is normally this would be a Zoro opponent but the man doesn’t use swords. This has always been a dream scenario for me I wonder what Oda will actually do.