thank you soo much for sliwly elaberating my point fir meCrocodile is on the same level as Do-flamingo [The war pretty much showed them on equal footing].... Have you not heard him during the war when Dofa asked crocodile to join him??
"You should come and work under me instead, shitty flamingo!!"
Also a fight seems inevitable. The moment Do-flamingo is in range of Luffy's Kenbonshuku .....he is dead.
Edit: Oh sorry but seems someone already pointed this out.
Okay so in reply, Crocodile is not delusional. He is one of the most reasonable characters in one piece. Crocodile was defeated by Whitebeard in the new world as such he wanted to show his strength by fighting against him again. He never considered himself whitebeards equal. Dofa on the other hand is a different case.
funny part is i'm a mihawk fan.