Didn’t the One Piece volume descriptions and the introduction text boxes also say that Don Krieg was the strongest man in East Blue?
Not sure if that’s what your sourcing, but I don’t know how reliable those are.
I'm not gonna post the 10+ scans where Bigmom,Doffy,Sengoku,Sakazuki,Buggy,Garp and Ivankov all state that WB is the strongest Yonko. Search it up.
Bigmom's opinion should put an end to any debate, she herself is a Yonko and thinks WB>Kaido/Shanks
I mean given that Marco was already shown sending Kizaru flying, why would it be particularly shocking that he could make Akainu stumble back when literally he charged in their to block the attack?
Marco never sent Kizaru fly. Kizaru was mid-air and got kicked, Kizaru can't fly, obviously he was gonna fall down.
Marco did 0 damage to Admirals, Marco couldn't damage Akainu with a SNEAK ATTACK alongside Vista, Marco couldn't stop Akainu in a 16 vs 1 fight.
Oda literally said that he forgot how how Gifters worked in an SBS. I don’t think he thinks this hard about fights.
-Mr1 stopped Mihawk's slash that was meant for Luffy
-1 page later Mihawk oneshots Mr.1
Oda is very aware of these things