Talk:Azalea/@comment-3030647-20130122090826/@comment-3387274-20130122230419

Because Mihawk got through the entire marineford war with not so much as a scratch, and has no obvious wounds. clearly he's miles above all of them, so by saying you can match him implies you outrank most of the strongest pirates in the world purely by swordsmanship, which is.. well you get the idea.

Also, we have to put our foot down somewhere, and if we allowed people to "match" him without exceeding, there would be a good chance of us ending up with a lot of characters who did, and then his whole title of "world's strongest swordsman" would look dubious. To avoid messing with cannon, he is considered far beyond anyone right now, and must remain so.