He literally shouted out loud "Oden Nitoryu" and Kaido was facing him in the next panel which you conveniently removed.
Anyhow, Oden was one of the strongest people in OP, and had WSM potential. He was born a monster. This fight shows nothing that Kaido's title is a rumour. Kaido even compared him to Roger and Whitebeard. Let's not forget Oden was part of the middle generation.
Can you conclude Kaido was reallg focused on Oden even after he shouted?
Seeing Kaido face while attacking second time... don't really 100% fact that he was aiming at Oden.
Oden seems like he flew straight on . The panel where he kneels, saido looking away, if we see that Oden flew straight on then he cut Kaido who was attacking elsewhere, by cutting him from the side not really head on by the middle of his chest.
That's why Kaido scar is even by the side. Not chest,
Akainu fisted WB by the middle coz he was clearly head on, someone you slash head on, has cut in the middle not side unless you were aiming for the side. (And we know Oden was gonn to cut Kaido neck but failed ,)
For a fact, Kaido will match Oden in base form.
He matched a stronger natural freak for days.
Concluding oden will beat Kaido coz he landed one fatal blow on Dragon kaido (which Kaido was still able to stand up pretty fast considering it was really fatal) is wrong. Oda clearly showed despite the fatal blow, kaido can get up quick after.
Oden was top 10 during Roger Era :
1-2. Roger /WB
3. Shiki
4-5. Garp/Sengoku
6. Kong
7. BM
8. Kaido
9-10 . Ray/Oden
Top 5 middle gen :
Kaido
Oden
Akainu/Shanks
Dragon
Garp couldn't flatten Chinjao at first so he went training to do so then came back stronger to beat Chinjao. This was 30 years ago.
The Man took down Rocks with Roger yet needed training for Chinjao.the Man who was cornering Roger many times.
Prime Garp best 1 vs 1 W remains against Chinjao aftr training up.
Now Kaido getting damaged by Oden (much stronger than Chinjao) and winning via distraction shouldn't be a downplay this hard even.
Prime Garp himself needed training for someone below him.
Kaido(in 30s) 20 years ago fighting like poor this isnt a big issue...
even tho I'm disappointed, he still won.
If Kaido isnt strong than Roger isnt powerful to be matched by prime Garp who needed training for chinjao ... how many people train against a weaker opponents then themselves?
This tells me either Chinjao was really stronger than we think (coz Oda even called him lately a rival of Garp.) Or Garp isn't that strong too; which makes Roger not so powerful.