It's a bait thread, but I'll give a more serious answer.
Kinda, but not really equivalent.
From the start, there was no delusion of Zoro actually being strong enough to fight Kaido 1v1 (at least from majority of ZKK pushers).
They were expecting a 5v2 against Yonkos, where Zoro gets the killshot on Kaido.
And when that route stopped, I don't even think the next idea was Zoro kills a defeated or unconscious Kaido. IIRC it was more of both Luffy/Kaido gets knocked down but Kaido gets back up first, or Kaido barely wins against Luffy..... and then Zoro gets the killshot before he could kill Luffy.
But that's besides the point.
Garling is a fraud because Loda portrayed him to be much stronger and impressive than he turned out to be. "Distinguished in God Valley" "Champion of God Valley" alongside other events in recent times such as promotion to Gorosei, presence in spread of contenders for OP as the Gorosei representative, etc.
NOBODY could've imagined the humiliation that was in store for him in the actual God Valley. Subversion of expectations of the highest order lmao.