That's always the case, I already said it in my previous post O_O Luffy always fights the enemies leader and Zoro always fights the 2nd strongest, who's always a swordsman. From the moment they said that Hyouzou was the strongest swordsman of FI it was obvious that Zoro would fight him and that Luffy would fight Hodi.
Kaku, Hacchi, Daz Bones, Ryuuma, the guy from Skypiea...those were all swordsman and most of them were always the 2nd strongest and that applies for Hyouzou too.
No. He meant that Hodi is a powered up version of Arlong, and Hyozu is a powered up version of Hacchi. And I meant that Sanji is to fight a powered up version of Kuroobi and Usopp a powered up version of Chew.
Also, something that has caught my attention reading One Piece Wiki, Shirahoshi appears to be the second person that Luffy openly admits he doesn't like for being coward, the first being Cody (And they're both pink haired xd).
This along with the cover being also re-used, draws a nice parallel between how they had to fight to enter the 1st Half of Grand Line and how they're fighting now to enter the 2nd Half. It's nice to see. Hopefully the similarities will end here, and I'm sure they will, but I like how Oda is doing things.
(Except, of course, Surume being one-shot and Nami falling over from air pressure -_-)