That off hand explanation of how those two are on par with zarbon and dodoria is what's screwing this up for me. All that had to be said was that those two were better fighters than the previous henchmen, and it would have raised far fewer eyebrows. How the heck is someone who fought frieza's form 2 to a stand still, then in the very next story arc, gains a power up that would make him far stronger than frieza was in the previous arc, and then continued to train further beyond that point is losing to a guy like that?