Yes he did.
How long are you gonna cry? You are crying both for Zolo and Admirals? At least Admiral wankers cry for Admirals, you cry more.
Question: ''Odacchi!! In the sbs from volume 82 you told us how to escape from Akainu, bears, ghosts and the like. But when I try to do this before my angered mother I'm just beaten up... Is my mother stronger than Akainu?'' P.N. Star Fairy
Oda: ''You better watch out! you're being too brash! A mother is the strongest living being in the world, even stronger than Kaido!! Don't you dare do it again! But, you know, your mother loves you more than anyone else.''
---SBS Volume 83
The manga says enough.
Stfu and stop crying already, there is no such a thing as Oda saying this guy is that and this guy is this, always people says this guy is strongest or this guy is not strongest, it's always about people.
How do you think Roger become PK or other Kaido, WB and Big mom, Shanks, Teach become Yonko? Teach literally become Yonko when people said he is 1 after the marineford battle and after beating WB pirates remnants. It's always up to what people says, Oda never says this is that etc.
Yet, he says Kaido > Akainu in SBS, which makes you Admirals wankers cry.