not necessarily. pre enma two swords zoro and a nerfed killer without his weapons were pretty much matching blow for blow until zoro decided to end it in act 2. with enma and the haki training, zoro got considerably stronger.
imo killer essentially low diff'd hawkins, even with the kid hax, so that makes up for making him fight hawkins. hawkins is garbage though, i think even bege can be stronger than him.
What's even worse for Hawkins is that Faust who appeared to be his VC has completely vanished post TS with no explanation. I'm surprised he wasn't recruited into Kaido's crew or was the reason Jack was able to find Zou, since he is a Mink apparently and not a black cat Zoan. (Marguerite was meant to have that Zoan funnily enough.)
I'm wondering if Faust could end up being connected to Blackbeard or someone else and betrayed Hawkins maybe? That's why we haven't seen him? To give him such an important inspiration/name and them to make him disappear like the Nidai, Hiyori and Ame No Habakiri have lately? Wtf Oda?
Also, when Hawkins was fighting in Wano early on, the anime showed one of his other members, the ponytailed guy fall into a newly made chasm and that was the last we saw of him, as far as I know!
3:38 is where that crewmate of Hawkins vanishes and seemingly dies too lmao: