Big deal. In the auctionhouse most of the rookiecrews didnt collapse by Rayleighs haki. This doesnt mean anything. And whats "confronted"? The only one in BB-Crews to this time who confronted Shanks was BB for all we know.
The funny thing is... what did Ace do? He was standing there and spamming fire, then a jump and again.. fire. No hand to hand combat at all. The only praisable is that he didnt die by BBs first punch.
Ah come ooooon. Did Luffy use Haki everytime he was dodging things? BB isnt the fastpuncher, he is a hardpuncher if we go by boxing terms he is an infighter not an outboxer like Ace. Ace fightingstyle was mostly sending fire from a distance, where as BB style is now drawing things to him and beat them to a pulp. If he had haki, he would have seen the first punch coming too. But... where exactly stated Van Auger: "wow such a good haki from Ace."? ^^
Strange... didnt you said before that haki wasnt a specialthing in the new world? How comes then that Ace didnt switch off that attitude? I mean by this logic his enemies in the new world couldnt touch him because they didnt know any haki? But since they do, like you and others said before, he should have switched this attitude off for certain. D:
And you read too much between lines. Well must be good with the ladies then i think... atleast they always speak in riddles and between lines.
Fire vs. Ice ... Ace was his natural enemy and still couldnt overpower him.