He was asking him sarcastically i presume, there are 3 fights i can cite that literally show Thor stating himself he wont hold back against Hulk, in one of those fights he literally screams at him "I WILL KILL YOU!" and the outcome is no different then those supposed times where he was "holding back".
Even if we where to take that highly questionable scan from "hammer and sinew" that doesn't show any circumstances of the fight, Hulks powerset literally allows him to go from getting knocked out by other 100 tonners(maybe even less at his calmest levels) to tanking planet+ attacks. Hulks entire powerset is dependent on his emotional state, so yea in certain instances i believe Thor can outright kill Hulk with a single blow if he wanted to, but this is WWH with potential to go WBH.... he was tanking everything from continent busting to planet busting attacks with a smile and a bloody nose(and all that before he reached WBH levels), not some random unknown incarnations from some Thor book(which i am not sure if it is even canon).
If you're talking about the fight between Thor and Nul, in that fight Thor was extremely weakened by a fatal wound he sustained within the World Tree. That wound growing inside him until it killed him at the end of Fear Itself.
That's why he passed out right after sending Nul into out.
Now if you're talking about the fight where Thor was depowered then magically "regained" his power, we don't know if he was at full power. After all, even the cold water was affecting him to an extent. We all know this wouldn't happen to Thor at his regular power level.
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