You don't want to see it but yeah it clearly implied that. The hurry up tanuki and the holding back 2 guys over 1B = it lasted and Marco is grew tired and he was fighting them both and clashed with both.
What did you think happen ?
Marco was fighting King the whole time only ? then he just has a really small clash with King and Queen ? then he held Queen back for one second and then resume his 1 vs 1 vs King ?
So Marco fought only King 98% of the time and grew that tired and that hurt while King was more or less okay ? it was clarly not what the story told us and it is wayy to unreasonable.
Marco was fighting King the whole time only ? then he just has a really small clash with King and Queen ? then he held Queen back for one second and then resume his 1 vs 1 vs King ?
So Marco fought only King 98% of the time and grew that tired and that hurt while King was more or less okay ? it was clarly not what the story told us and it is wayy to unreasonable.
Yup, Queen did not engage Marco after chapter 1000. King fought Marco the entire time until chapter 1006 in which Marco attacked Queen for targeting Hyogoro. Marco grew that tired because he was also helping the fodder via flames while fighting King. Do you think he can just fight on par with a fellow YC1, who's more skilled and has physical states comparable to Zoro, without suffering the consequences?
There is nothing unreasonable about King being able to fight an exhausted Marco. We saw him fight Marco even after Queen started fighting Chopper and Sanji, he was totally fine fighting against Hybrid Marco. He also took two of Marco's strongest attacks shown in base and got back like nothing happened.