A warlord is a pirate, I expected more from you boss. Mental gymnastics are unbecoming of you.
You also speak of headcanon yet headcanon your way into saying that Kaido wasnt the strongest pirate until WB died when in fact the Ace novel had people in it believing he was > Oldbeard.
BM put 10+ years ago WB ''over'' the other yonko but we dont even know the context of that. As she wanted to amass a bigger army, and WB canonically had the biggest crew and allies number wise. Its not like Giants matter in 1vs1s.
And finally, the mihawk was a shishibukai therefore not a pirate( when everyone and their mother keeps calling them pirates) is the height of cope.
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The
Seven Warlords of the Sea, also referred to as just the
Seven Warlords, were a group of seven powerful and notorious
pirates allied to the
World Government.
Am i falling for a troll bait :/