But that just begs the same question. Was Whitebeard really the strongest or did Kizaru perceive his title as wrong? Don’t forget these guys can sense power levels.
He was prior to the Squardo stab, and no man Its just how Kizaru is. He does his job, he is fearless. And thats about it.
So Kizaru who could sense Whitebeard’s power level was confident he could kill Whitebeard. Similarly, Kizaru can sense Luffy’s power level, knows Luffy beat Kaido, but still wasn’t at all concerned at the idea of facing Luffy and his crew with no help but Lucci and Kaku. Lol
I understand that you must twist this up to fit your agenda but even the VC stated that WB was the WSM when the war started.
I think its better hype for Kizaru to say that he is a fearless man who will fight whoever then what youre trying to insinuate.
Whitebeards health and haki deteriorated extremely rapidly from the start of the war to the middle of it you cannot deny it.
Id love it if you gave Kaido his due respect some day, hes been getting nods from many top tiers ( BM,GB, BB, now Kizaru).