Bounty of Hajrudin – credible but non-canon

No official line ever credited Hajrudin with anything: he was hired muscle, an S-class mercenary retained by Buggy's dispatch organization to represent its interests at the Corrida Colosseum, and no wanted poster has ever sanctioned a paid contract like that. A giant out of Elbaf, he draws a masked opponent registered only as Lucy in Block C — one disguise among several running through that same tournament. Lucy takes Hajrudin's shield head-on without flinching, then drops him in a single blow; only after the war at Marineford does the world learn that Lucy's face belonged to Sabo, chief of staff of the Revolutionary Army.

The duel closes an older biographical line without either fighter knowing it. The Giant Warrior Pirates had carried no active name for a century, ever since Dorry and Brogy retired mid-duel to Little Garden. Hajrudin picks the name back up after Dressrosa, founding the New Giant Warrior Pirates, who almost immediately join the Straw Hat Grand Fleet — he commands its sixth ship.

The contrast is sharp: beaten as rented muscle at the most-watched tournament in the New World, he walks away a captain of a reconstituted crew and an acknowledged commander within a seven-ship fleet. Neither status ever produced a number. The loss was a contract, not a crime; the current command runs under someone else's flag. What exactly would the World Government even price here — a failed one-off engagement, or a fleet loyalty that has never once been tested in open combat against the institution itself? The registry never had to decide, because it was never actually asked to.