Like it just doesn't make sense for king to be the climax of zoro's arc
Zoro vs King was a cool fight, but the stakes just weren't that high, it failed to address a few lingering plot elements about zoro's lineage, and Oda didn't even bring up the mink medicine timelimit, which imo was always going to be a chekov's gun for a major moment in the future.
We're this far into wano and we're yet to see who Hawkins's 1% man is. I figure its going to be Zoro. Zoro's timelimit will expire post Zoro vs King, he'll pass out until all the other fights are complete, and then he'll rise up towards the end of Luffy vs kaido for ZKK.