The - Mandingo is 9” minimum - rhetoric has to be one of the most relentless & rabid opinions concerning porn star sizes. The bottom line is there just isn’t any proof for it.
If you look at this thread, there’s really only a few guys that get picked apart over and over and over again because people can’t simply accept the evidence presented. (Danny D, Lex Steele, Mandingo, etc.). I also don’t think it’s any coincidence that it’s the biggest-of-the-big guys that are incessantly scrutinized and dissected to a completely unecessary degree.
There’s plenty of evidence that would strongly suggest Mandingo is under 9”, but (probably for a multitude of reasons) people just won’t accept it. Either it threatens the perceived size of their own penis, threatens their fantasies, their biases, etc.
The only evidence I see of Mandingo being “9 inches at least” is essentially nothing. Just blanket statements with no substance to back them up. But he just has to be that big, because if he isn’t, that might require some uncomfortable reconsideration for a few...