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Originally Posted by Slayerx
You seem to ignore the other 267 sword wounds, 152 gunshot wounds and 46 wounds from cannonballs, and various other damaged he received through out the fight. Whitebeard didn't take on Akainu, he took him along with an entire army; Heck by the time the two had that final exchange Whitebeard was already certain he was going to die. Whitebeard was so dominating, that it was clear from their brief encounter that had they fought one-on-one, Akainu wouldn't have stood a chance. Like for instance the fact that Whitebeard wouldn't have simply left Akainu incapacitated, and instead would have either killed him or given him another shot or two to make sure he STAYED down. In essence, Akainu only survived and got up again because Whitebeard had an army to fight.
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I've taken all that into account. Doesn't really change much, because it was Akainu and Blackbeard that dealt the real fatal blows on Whitebeard (the heart attack he suffered was also problematic). And like I said before, Akainu proceeded to steam roll everyone shortly afterwards. Whitebeard would have had to dish out a lot more than he did to make sure Akainu would really stay down. The guy is a tank.
The admirals proved themselves to be on par with Whitebeard. Jozu had to step in and help the old man against Aokiji. Kizaru didn't sustain any injuries. And these skirmishes were before Whitebeard was in a near-death state.
What happened here is that Whitebeard didn't quite live up to people's expectations. He may have been the strongest man in the world, but that doesn't mean he was so far above everyone else (and the war proved that). It's still debated to this day if he was in fact the strongest right before his death, because his performance at Marineford wasn't exactly the greatest. You may be an advocate of him being the strongest pre-skip, but one thing that's certain is that he wouldn't stomp another top-tier fighter because that wouldn't make any sense.