We are first explicitly told by Sengoku that most of the members of the ROCKS Pirates could NOT stand each other. They weren't friends and didn't like each other at all, which could imply that they refused to help each other out including their captain in the face of adversity
Secondly we have Whitebeard who comments on what happens when "a bunch of guys who can't serve under someone" are lumped together, and he says "never again"
Whitebeard clearly implies that ROCKS wasn't able to command enough RESPECT for his subordinates to listen to him, they were too wild and wouldn't take orders from him.
Was Rocks betrayed? Indirectly? Directly? Did he lose fair and square?
Secondly we have Whitebeard who comments on what happens when "a bunch of guys who can't serve under someone" are lumped together, and he says "never again"
Whitebeard clearly implies that ROCKS wasn't able to command enough RESPECT for his subordinates to listen to him, they were too wild and wouldn't take orders from him.
Was Rocks betrayed? Indirectly? Directly? Did he lose fair and square?