Friendly reminder
As of chapter 1081
The strongest character in the entire series that Law managed beat in a clean 1 vs 1 was...
... VERGO
Or, for those who believe that Smoker was stronger than Vergo but threw the fight...
PUNK HAZARD SMOKER
The strongest character in the entire series that Kid managed beat in a clean 1 vs 1 was...
404 NOT FOUND
Now this is telling damn
These two lived their hype by leeching from panels together with Luffy, bounties scaling, and exploiting 2 vs 1 sneak attacks against the clumsiest of all top tiers, which they actually never managed to put KO for real
As a matter of facts, Law and Kid's only purpose was to trigger a certain portion of the fandom and to deliver Poneglyphs to, respectively, Blackbeard and Shanks, who are Luffy's TRUE contenders