User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 322: Gloria, Review/@comment-1454981-20130308195157/@comment-1454981-20130309083051

I am a massive combats sports fan and follow MMA religiously and even trained some. Same with Boxing,K-1 kickboxing,and Muay Tai. Anyway, this isnt about looking at it the complicated way u are because mashima is NOT looking into fights that deep. Im quite sure he hates writing fights. But look at it this way. Jura before time skip could have been considered stronger than laxus. Not by much but just a little stronger. Now, add 7 years of experience. Tell me how one, even though laxus IS strong, beats a 5th ranked wizard saint after having a 7 year lay off comeback to beat him with 3 months to catch up. If you're gonna look at it at a combat-sports stand point then sure it happens all the time, GSP vs. Carlos Condit for example. But from a logical stand point which mashima looks at, jura who is vastly superior besides endurance and a little bit speed, wins. No debate about it. Plus, how do you think this makes the wizard saints look? This totally destroys their credibility. Oda did the same thing with the Shichibukai. Now you look at the wizard saints like "oh they're not so special". Natsu vs. Jellal and Laxus vs. Jura is the result of that. Jura should have beat laxus from a fighting and magical power stand point and an after math stand point no doubt about it,