King losing to half dead Zoro would be a huge disrespect to King imo. Like if Sanji was badly injured and beat fresh Queen, that's just too underwhelmed for Queen.
Queen losing to badly injured Sanji would be underwhelming, but I don’t feel the same way for Zoro v King.
Zoro from an objective standpoint has been portrayed as significantly stronger than Sanji. It doesn’t take away from them as a duo, but Zoro is in a higher tier as a fighter. Sanji’s a beast, but Zoro is just more of one.
Oda has a history of wounding Zoro and having him enter arcs already nerfed. He often does it as a way to bring Zoro down to his arc opponent so that it’s still a good fight. After Zoro’s rooftop feats I’m placing him notably over King when he’s full health so it’s reasonable to me for a nerfed Zoro to be able to beat a healthy King in an extreme diff fight. Think back to Arlong Park.
Unless King greatly outclasses Queen, which Oda has given no indication of, then Zoro needs to be injured to fight him.
Basically if Queen is a good fight for Sanji and King/Queen are close, then Zoro needs to be nerfed for Zoro v King to be good.
Im expecting Zoro to be around an admiral and Sanji to be around a YC1 coming out of this arc.
Btw I expect Zoro v King to be tougher than Sanji v Queen. For Sanji I’m thinking lower high diff & Zoro extreme.