Roger confirmed in the page after he was pretending.
Prime WB was not his equal.
BTW handling WB fans is very annoying
The guy is 36, Oda confirmed that WB was already in his golden age at 38, he got the fruit (and many were denying he had it, to find an excuse to his poor portray), he now showed he got adv. Coc already, he got his prime design and he got his nagisa.
And he probably didn't fight at all in the next years, since he was just building his crew.
So why the cope.
Accept the L, Garp and Roger are stronger THAN WB.
It's not the end of the world, it's something I predicted long time ago. Whitebeard has always been fraudolent, he got hyped by using Roger, not the other way around. Shiki hyped Roger more in chapter 0.
How could people genuinely believe WB to be slightly stronger than Roger for title gospel mentality is still a question mark to me..
Critical thinking is the least intelligence category of average one piece fan, can't even put in discussion a freaking title and look at statement and feats.