“You guys don’t want to admit Mihawk is Yonko level, stop running in circles”
The “circles”, he couldn’t cut Jozu, could noteasily defeat Crocodile, and had to postpone against Vista.
Yeah, I’m totally doing mental backflips and not just using my eyes
And then Jozu went on to have a prolonged battle against Akainu's equal without getting a scratch until, eventually, he got distracted. Which sounds more humiliating: getting a one-handed slash blocked by a YC2—while using his defense—after it travels several hundred meters or having a prolonged battle against him and needing a distraction to get him out when he's not using his defense? If Kuzan can went on to fight on par with Akainu after what happened b/w him and Jozu, then I don't see how Mihawk can't do it too.
Not using full power against those weaker than him is literally Mihawk's MO:
Not his fault if you're expecting him to fight like, what Mihawk describes as, brutes. And if we actually have functioning brains, we'd know Jozu, Vista's superior, was getting hyped for blocking a one-handed slash from Mihawk. It doesn't take Elon Musk to understand Mihawk was holding back against Vista, just like he did against pre-skip Zoro and Luffy.