User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Mihawk's Strength/@comment-3231264-20110724041800/@comment-3986064-20110724103850

I think we could agree that Mihawk is the strongest or 2nd strongest even if he doesn't have haki, but if he has haki(complete speculation with no mentioning about it in OP) he IS the strongest of the Shichinbukai. (and I wrote an hour of essay yesterday but I couldn't post it:( dammit!)