Considering the fact that Whitebeard said that he can remember him and Hawk eyes duel ringing through the new world certainly confirms that the battle is anything but light hearted. Just because on occasions they have friendly duels doesn’t mean that it is easy going. Just look at the “friendly” clash he had with Whitebeard. Clearly they weren’t ill intent but if you look at the sky, you’d think otherwise.Lol as if we've ever actually seen how these fights go. You paint them as if they always end with both guys falling out exhausted. We've seen Shanks personality, I'd calm down on the Mihawk dueled Shanks for WSS title because we know titles and shit like that aren't important to Shanks so you can't prove or assert that he's giving his all out against his friend Mihawk in these duels for a title.
And with this comment I can just repeat the same thing you said about Hawk eye. Because you need to calm done about this Admiral being near or as strong as a yonkou stuff because you’re paint it like an admiral can fight a yonkou to the point of exhaustion, their title means shit when none of them can one on one a yonkou during the paramount war who was already weakened.Secondly Admirals are near Yonkou though I agree they're not above. I still don't see Mihawk being able to step up to Aokiji or Akainu like they were at PH, or I should say nothing has shown he would but his hype helps give him the benefit of the doubt.
Took all 3 of them to fight him and none of them were able to kill him, the more active one had to cheap shot and jump behind several vice admiral while the latter of the battle ended up tunneling from underground just to save his life.
See how that works now? So you don’t pick one or the other, if you’re gonna done play hype then sure as hell do the same for admirals.