Old legends will generally lose to most top-tiers.
The thing with old legends is that they lose, but they always get insane glaze in the process.
This doesn't necessarily mean they're far stronger in their primes however, at least to me. Because we've seen prime versions of several old legends in flashbacks and frankly, very little they've done seems to put them massively above their older selves except in terms of stamina.
On top of which Oda himself has admitted that making old people not lose strength is one of the fantasies he wants to realize with OP, so this whole narrative of "Prime X DESTROYS someone his old version went toe-to-toe with" is dubious to me.