Just because Oda hasn't revealed his past yet doesn't mean he is a fraud or didn't fight anyone. That is a dumb argument. That's like believing the heavyweight boxing champion of the world is a fraud just because you never witnessed any of his fights.
It's the same for the Marines. Just because Oda hasn't revealed who he fought in the marines doesn't mean that didn't happen. What we do know is that the marines weren't able to capture him. That speaks volume of his strength. This belief that he only targeted weak Marines is stupid. Think about it, we have something who is targeting and wiping out the marine forces and fleet admiral tells the public the reason they haven't stopped him was because he's a fraud and a weakling People will call the fleet animal a liar and a coward.
The only thing we can say is he never faced Vista before Marineford.
Mihawk was holding back against Luffy. It's dumb to believe the character who can easily cut a mountain size iceberg in half, that required the combined power of a yonko and admiral using hax and powerful df power to create, can't seriously damage a character who is weak against cutting attacks.
so you have nothing to show for mihawk outside of title?
he literally became a Warlord cause he didnt want to be chased by the marines....
exactly he didnt face off against the no1 Yonkos swordsman... so he never came close to even facing off one of the other Yonko who are all losely considered swordsman BM and Kaido, wouldnt even finish his matrch against Shanks his "rival"...
lol in no way shapr or form was mihawk holding back he literally says lets let fate decide, apologized to shanks that hes about to kill luffy then proceeds to miss every slash and at best cuts luffy and then luffy displays FS and avoids his best shot of hitting..
literally zoro did the same thing in DR it isnt impressive not in the slightest.
he cut a non moving target woah is this really still the best stat you got for mihawk its been 20 years can you give me something new?
cause it really is not impressive given the density and mass are lower than stone.
zoro literally cuts steel like it is nothing, zoro can casually cut live elements fire in half.
oh no mihawk a frozen tsunami slayer...