User blog comment:Luffayking12/Laxus vs. Alexei/@comment-4047931-20120602174134/@comment-4047931-20120602182026

Well Team Natsu had enough magic to fight against Hades and seeing Laxus do better in a fight with Hades than the 5 on the floor says something about Laxus's strength and you did read the part "for a good while" which meant the Laxus was able to fight better than 5 people against an extremely powerful enemy for a decent amount of time.