User blog comment:Martialmaniac/Maha and Netero/@comment-32818639-20180404025554

I do not know if this is what is wanted:


 * Although in the Viz translation Zeno's speech gives the idea that Maha was so powerful in his youth that Isaac Netero was the only one who survived to a fight with his grandfather (which some consider to be an inversion since Netero once was considered the strongest fighter in the world), this could be nothing more than a mistranslation and do not in any way infer the strength of both.
 * Considering the original Japanese text and the context of Zeno's speech:
 * the whole point of that exposition is to demonstrate just how old Netero was;
 * the phrase "[...]he's been an old man[...] since even I was a baby." is followed by the sentence about fighting Maha and living, the latter punctuated with a し (used to emphasize the previous sentence about Netero's unbelievable old age);
 * the nuance in the word "fight", is not used "戦って" (to battle, to fight), but "ケンカして" (to fight, to squabble) [the detail being the use of katakana instead of kanji].
 * Possibly with the intention of passing the idea of a childish quarrel, and not a serious life-and-death battle.
 * Thus, the most sensible interpretation for what Zeno meant could be: Netero is so old, he is the only person still alive who is old enough to have had childish squabbles with my grandfather.

The text got too big and I could only put it in this formed, trying not to lose details; many parts were also directly copied from the source. In my opinion, this only fits in the Trivia section because it's more a clarification of a wrong translation.