User blog comment:Luffayking12/Who is Doflamingo???????/@comment-99.245.165.97-20120706200038/@comment-4605926-20120712214532

I've come to the conclusion that all Shichibukai vary greatly in terms of strength. While Moriah is relatively a weak Shichibukai who even lost to Luffy and his crew (I know it's because their the heroes of the series too but face it, Moriah is relatively weak and that's also why I didn't put Crocodile instead), Mihawk is very likely to be above Admiral level since he is the strongest swordsman alive. In other words, he's surpassing Shanks which is a Yonko and I believe a Yonko should be around Admiral level even though we really haven't grasped their power yet (except for Whitebeard's extraordinary strength which doesn't indicate the other Yonkos' powers).