Yeah, you can continue to huff next level copium.
Nobody respected Rocks D Clown because he was a bum carried by his crew members, and crew members he gained not by strength or respect but by kids games, we already know his whole crew treated him like trash and we now also know why he "let" people fight each to death in his crew, he was just too weak to stop his top tier non-swordsmen crew members from fighting each other.