Poor admirals. No wonder they were so terrified when Luffy used it at MF.
That was so funny tbh. Shanks said almost word for word what Coby said and no magma fist came in for Shanks
That's the problem with relying on faulty translations. Stephen's script doesn't have him calling Shanks a 'has been' for instance. He just says that he isn't interested now that he only has one arm. Shanks is perfectly confident that it will still be a good match. And yes there are values with swordsmen. Zoro when he first fights Mihawk says 'a scar on the back is a swordsman's shame'. So swordsmen do have values. The word kenshi even means something like 'sword knight'. not just strictly swordmaster.
In any event, Mihawk is WSS and waits for someone to surpass Shanks. Even if Mihawk is stronger, Shanks is the next best thing.
It's okay I know the tears dropped on the keyboard when you wrote this
. It's okay buddy.