&gt;Thanos has more leverage on the Hulk, which is why he’s able to pry his  arms off his neck. It’s easier to pull his arms to the side than it is  for hulk to keep his hands on Thanos’ neck.

Hulk was freaking out when Thanos pulled his arms away. No reason Hulk would freak out like that if Thanos was his exact equal in strength.

Anyway there are contradicting statements by them. The writers said Thanos would've beaten the Titan team even if he loses the gauntlet. The Russos said that he would've lost.

&gt;Yes but Hulk was still able to physically overpower Thanos at the beginning.

Only because Thanos had no idea Hulk would emerge out of nowhere and start punching. This was only possible because Hulk caught him off guard. When Thor had a similar advantage, he overpowered Thanos with all 6 infinity stones and nearly killed him. Without the surprise, he gets punched down the same way.

&gt;She’s definitely more powerful, but when it comes to raw physical strength, she’s definitely not as strong as Thanos or Hulk.

She is slightly weaker than Thanos, but she was somewhat matching him in raw strength. Hulk couldn't do anything when Thanos casually pulled away his arms.

&gt;The only reason Thor was able to last as long against Hulk as he did was because he was dodging Hulks punches.

Thor actually had the upper hand once he got serious. He was landing all the hits on Hulk and didn't take any damage until the end when Hulk punched him non stop.

&gt;As seen by the fact that Thor began to see visions of his father and  underwent a life saving power boost while Hulk was beating on him. Kurse  wasn’t able to elicit such a response.

Because Odin died long after the Kurse fight and before the Hulk fight.

Kurse doesn't have much physical strength feats because he had low screen time, but he curbstomped Thor while Hulk vs Thor was a decent fight. Thor was struggling to recover from Kurse' attacks, but he was barely affected by Hulk's indvidual hits and recovered instantly. He was only able to put Thor down by repeatedly hitting him over a dozen times. Thor was unable to do anything to Kurse and he was unstoppable.

Edit: Kurse also scales to Thor, who has physical strength feats comparable to Hulk.