Oh, i understood it very well!
First Hawkins has the job / objetive of defeating and capturing both Luffy and Zoro, and he comes with a bunch of fodder / minions.
Luffy and Zoro both proceed to keep making fun and fucking around, just defeating everybody with no tension whatsoever.
Then Hawkins decides to do something, and Zoro keeps hitting him like a bitch a bunch of times, but Hawkins only survives because of his devil fruit powers.
Then, Tama gets worse, Komainu takes both Zoro and Luffy and starts to run because she's dying, not because of weekling Hawkins, Hawkins fails completely to chase and stop them (failing his objective), while Zoro alone is able to keep Luffy and Tama safe on the back of the moving fucking Komainu on his back.
Later on Zoro is drinking Sake and saying the cuts from the nails are just a bunch of scratches, but they decide to treat him anyway, even if he doesn't care about them.
In your Hawkins crazy mind Zoro got absolutely nailed hard and lost, in my mind Luffy and Zoro just met each other, goofed around, defeated and killed a bunch of minions of Hawkins and left with no consequences, Hawkins failing to defeat and capture both of them, or even just one of them.