People upping this thread as if Mihawk's title is cared about more than before, yet Oda had to put him in a group totally unrelated to swordsmanship to give him some plot to do (and good thing he did).
The road to WSS will remain one of Oda's most poorly executed subplots. Zoro's dream still feels like a bromance, was it that hard to turn one of the many enemies faced by him into an actual contender for the title? Just a couple of panels of King promising Kaidou to never lose again were enough to rise his depth a little bit; why can't we have Zoro shattering the dreams of another person who just had the same hopes as his, who wanted the title as hard as himself but wasn't enough to achieve it?
Nah, who cares if this is just Zoro wanting to defeat Mihawk and Mihawk training the only person to show interest on his title; as long as they are strong it's fine, right?