User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 463: Black Carpet, Review./@comment-5894890-20151124221629/@comment-1776824-20151125085151

She can held her own against him, but when she is seriously trying to kill him with a bunch of swords and he turns them all to sand with half-assed bitch slaps, and when she tries to slice him in half and he just dodges and laughs, you can't call that serious fighting. He wasn't taking her seriously at all. And yeah, he yelled "Argh!" because he got hit. He wasn't deterred at all. It literally only made him mad. Erza was totally outclassed. She isn't as strong as God Serena, and that became completely clear in this fight, where someone as strong as Serena made a complete fool out of her.

Additionally, when someone is trying their hardest and you just playfully match them, that is outclassing them, and it became abundantly clear the difference in their strength towards the end. The fight was decent until the absolute end, which was absurd in and of itself. And truthfully, it wasn't his cockiness that resulted in his downfall. There was no way he could've seen that Jupiter blast coming. He planned on killing everyone with his Sand World, no fucks given. He was going to go on a total rampage, but the denseness of his own attack prevented him from seeing Jupiter until it was too late. It was just sheer bad writing that led to his downfall. Bisca fired at Erza, and Erza came out unscathed. There is no way in which that makes feasible sense.

I respect that your outlook on the quality of the fight itself is different, but you're going to have a hard time arguing facts and statistics with me when I have to read these chapters a dozen times a week and write everything down for them. The fact is that Ajeel shouted out of surprise, not "Omg dying", his injuries did not impede him, and he is easily twice as strong as Erza could hope to be.