Not really. Cassandra Cain surpassed Shiva and has had multiple teachers, and was specifically raised differently from Shiva with the sole purpose of being better than Shiva. How good Cassandra Cain is doesn't reflect how good Lady Shiva is really, other than maybe Shiva can hold her own with Cass but so can black panther so that's not a big deal.
Yeah, that's exactly what I said: Shiva is the best except for Cass. I'm not using Cassandra to scale Shiva, I'm just saying that other than her, Shiva is the best fighter in the world.
I would argue Black Panther being able to defeat any of those people. David's Cain claim to fame is stalemating Deathstroke off panel while in his prime, but this was years before Slade accumulated his experience fighting the titans and the best warriors in the DCU. Slade himself likely grew, it was even said that Slade and Cain measured there careers against each other. If you go feat for feat Slade's in a different league.
David has also stalemated Batman, despite sustaining a bullet-wound. He's comparable to Slade or Bruce, and yet a pregnant Sandra stomped prime Cain:
Also worth noting this is Shiva before improving considerably in the 18 years before she met Cassandra.
Batman and Shiva have gone back and fourth. Shiva's one actual win on batman is in the new 52 and most people would argue new 52 batman isn't as skilled as he was post crisis. As for Deathstroke I am not even sure when Shiva was pegged above him.
Shiva and Batman have never gone back and forth. Batman has continuously admitted Shiva is better than him. In their first ever encounter, a pre-prime Shiva was all but beating Batman until Robin interferred, which allowed Bats to cheapshot her long enough to put handcuffs on her. And even after the cheapshot, she was fine.
Their other "encounter" was when Shiva was being mind-controlled by Grodd, so she's obviously not at her best, and the fight was written by Leob who pulls power-levels out of his ass.
And the gap between Batman and Shiva is only bigger in Rebirth, since Shiva straight up wrecked him and Orphan in the Detective Comics run.
You also said these people are "comparable" to black panther. All of these people (except David Cain, he's not on this level), are also comparable to Shiva.
The gap between Bruce, Cain and Sandra is pretty noticeable. Whereas I'd wager Bruce is as good as T'Challa in terms of pure skill.
So have a lot of people. Black Panther has stomped Karnak in one move.
While in his suit, and that victory was attributed through his speed edge. He doesn't have a speed edge here.
He also wrecked lady bullseye and Typhoid Mary at the same time without his enhancements.
Shiva wrecking the Secret Six in a few moves is better honestly:
He even had a mini series with deadpool where he spent the whole series kicking his ass until Wade got an experimental prototype suit which gave him an edge.
That's not a better feat than Shiva beating the snot out of Batman.
Who are we talking about and what version of Azrael? JPV went through several stages. His physicals grew as his run went on but he also lost his sanity.
Talking about the Colony soldiers, and Rebirth Azrael. A single Colony soldier was capable of beating Azreal, and a few could take out Batman or Batwoman. Shiva stomped half a dozen in ten seconds.
Black Panther himself has fought super humans like Killmonger, M'baku, spider-man, Stergon, etc.
Usually with his suit, yes. And that's not exactly outside Sandra's paygrade.
Body reading is an advantage for Shiva. Black Panther is stronger, faster, more agile, and a more calculated fighter.
I don't think Panther is faster or more agile, nor that it'd matter with Shiva's body reading. As for strength, I'd concede that point, but Shiva has used the strength of metahumans like Supergirl(Matrix) against themselves and wrecked people physically stronger than her before.
Also despite Shiva being a villain and T'challa being a hero she is still someone who fights with honor whereas T'challa doesn't have a problem with dirty fighting.
Pray tell, what does T'Challa have in this fight, and in this environment, with which he can fight dirty?
Without gear, I'm backing Shiva.