No he literally says: there are only a handfull of people that can fight me.
so means there a max. five people equally or above his current strength at the time they were alive or at their current powerlevel. Maked perfect sense.
Roger BD > Kaido
Rocks BD > Kaido
Sick Old WB ~ Kaido
Shanks ~ Kaido
Oden ~< Kaido
mihawk, BM, CURRENT Garp < Kaido
Wrong
We know BM can fight jim and has been put neat equal to kaido
He doesn't need to mention or see Linlin again whom we know and is next to him
Shanks isn't equal to Kaido.
We know shanks fought him 2 years ago.
Only a handful can fight him :
Linlin (we saw their fight) , Oden, Shanks, WB. XEBEC, Roger
Some of these beat him when he was weak/rookie like Xebec ,WB and Roger probably beat him.
Admirals and Mihawk have ni case...they are clearly below Yonko and Oden per kaido statements since we haven't seen them fight kaido 1 v1 or hear they fought him solo.