About Netero vs Meruem

Why does some people think that Netero could beat Meruem? I think that the manga and the anime showed pretty clear that Netero didn't have a single chance against Meruem.

However I saw quite a lot of people saying stuff like "prime Netero wins" or even completely misinterpreting the story so that they can portray Meruem in a way that during his fight against Netero bro was trying too hard or whatever etc. But like... Meruem didn't even want to kill Netero in first place and wasn't even really trying to take him down because the only thing he wanted is learning his name.

Why?