[VS] aokiji vs kizaru

[Punk Hazard]

That's a fair enough opinion. It may even be true in some cases. This time round though there was an actual test of strength to determine the next fleet admiral. So the fleet admiral akainu is stronger than at least one of the (former) admirals aokiji. Obviously a gap in strength that only shows after 10 days of fighting shows just how close they truly are in strength and you'd imagine the same applies to Kizaru. Will and determination plays a big part when gaps in power are so small and I think akainu and kuzan both have more of that than kizaru and that's why in a 50-50 fight I'd put my money on them to be the ones to come out ahead after a 10 day war.

It's like Luffy fighting Lucci. Anyone with Luffy's strength alone should have lost that fight. It was Luffy's determination and will (and plot armor) that won him a fight that could have gone eiither way.

Okay, and? It was a test of strength because both Sakuzuki and Kuzan had good enough qualities to be the Fleet Admiral, equally so. So, they settled it by fighting. They're fighters after all.

The only difference between Fleet Admiral Akainu and Admiral Akainu is the former has more authority. Akainu didn't become stronger just because he was a Fleet Admiral, or got strength he wouldn't have gotten as an Admiral. None of this changes what I said: There's no inherent gap in power between an Admiral and Fleet Admiral.