If you get beated by WHITEBEARD it wont mean you are
fodder. If Whitebeard even bothers to go against someone then it alone means he is not fodder.
Whitebeard is strongest man in world, or atleast he was but he still is pretty damn formidable aswell.
This starts to remind me how Blackbeard was turned to fodder/rookie when Magellan overwhelmed him