User blog comment:Dmurray1031/Whitebeard vs. Shanks (both full strength)/@comment-72.82.171.127-20130629161339

The whole problem with this thread is that shanks has about two actual feats of strenght (i.e. matching whitebeard/splitting the heavens and blocking akainu's magma punch. Neither of those put him above whitebeard in his prime.