If he really wanted to hype someone who isn’t Luffy, what the hell is stopping him? You’re right, this is par for the course, but Oda needs to stop dicking us around and just end the damn fight already whether Luffy does it or not, the six adolescent boys in Tokyo who are still eating this shit up will understand.
Any of the last three - THREE!!! - times when Kaido kicked his ass would have been the right time to do this, why are we still here??