damn this thread dead, imagine if someone responds
Anyways erza actually beats gildarts lol, gildarts was getting toyed around by august meanwhile erza was holding her own against irene even after wendy stopped enchanting her (yes irene was holding back) but erza was still holding her own against irene even if irene was holding back since she was probably using like half her power but it does not matter cause both irene and august are own the same level and they were both holding back against erza and gildarts and unlike gildarts, erza managed to push irene to dragon mode (irene was still holding back tho if she wasn't then it is a bigger stomp in erzas favour)
But it is weird how erza lost to laxus, maybe laxus is also stronger then gildarts now lol (jk im pretty sure erza was holding back if she was not then laxus is stronger then gildarts to)