Lord Spopo was toying with her the whole time and playing to her tune. Videl is absolute fodder to him if he has to hold back on a mere Kiai to avoid killing her. Not to mention Videl couldn't even keep her eyes open when Gohan and Kibito were flying so slowly that they didn't even produce...
It was literally stated that Spopovich-sama's blast would've killed Videl, but he held back. He was leaps and bounds above Videl, he was suppressing himself at the beginning to avoid killing her.
Gohan also suggested Dende is fairly strong as he asked if he wanted to participate in the Budokai. He wouldn't ask him to participate if he were in the single or double digits in power with guys in the millions and billions running around.
I don't see anything wrong with that. It makes him weaker than an average Freeza foot soldier still, considering they were laughing at guys with powers around 1000 (the suppressed Namekian villagers).
Lord Spopovich stomps. The only reason Videl injured Spopo at all is because he was suppressed, he and Yamu were capable of flying at a higher speed than BoZ Goku as well as controlling the strength of their Kiai/Ki blasts. BoDB Goku's Kamehameha barely put a hole in a small car.
And? Goku said the only reason he held back his battle level was to avoid killing his opponents; when that limiter was broken (something Goku did as a counter to Ten's killing intent; he even said "Ora mo sentou you no pawa de yaru!" in the original which means I'll use my battle-purpose power...
Nah I see a visible advantage on Gokus part. With Roshi you see Goku openly admitting he'd still have lost because the old-timer was strong (and had more versatile techniques), Tenshinhan said he lost in a contest of strength and Roshi didn't even deny that. If you count the number of hits Ten...
Goku immediately had to resort to his FP once Ten used the Haikyuu-ken, and he was seen visibly wiping blood. Ten had the upper hand against Match Level Goku without a doubt.
They weren't dead even at all. Goku was outmaneuvering him every step of the way, which is why the Crane Hermit even...
Tenshinhan stomped Match Level Goku. Goku literally only got one hit in, which didn't even draw blood, and then went on to take visible damage from Tenshinhan's Haikyuu-ken. And Goku visibly took the upper hand against Ten, even managing to move his arms so fast that he couldn't keep up even...
I think Gohan isn't that old considering he was taught at the same time as Ox King. He could easily just have been only in his 60s or so when he died. Roshi would've still been an old ass man.
Nobody noted Tenshinhan got stronger or faster after Goku started using his FP. Not even Goku went and said something to that effect, something he usually does when the other party suddenly starts to do better than before.
Nobody noted Goku went more all-out against Ten initially than he did when defeating Kuririn. In fact he used the exact same maneuver of "disappearing" and then reappearing.