Buutenks vs Gohan (anime)

[Hector]

In the anime, why do you think Gohan and Buutenks were fighting evenly in the beginning? Do you think that Buutenks was just toying in the beginning, or did his mind games turn the tide?

 

[Yoshi]

Bootenks began to gaslight Gohan after round one.

 

[Symbiote]

I think he was just testing to see if he was really strong enough to absorb Gohan or not, but I haven’t watched the anime in forever so I don’t really remember much. Or it was just additional fighting to stretch out the episode,

 

[SSJ2]

I don't remember the anime well, but I'd agree with Symbiote. He was either testing his new abilities/warming up, or it was part of his psychological assault on Gohan. Make him feel as though he has a chance only to stomp the shit out of him in round 2.