User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 541 - THE BLADE AND ME 2/@comment-10797017-20130614060634/@comment-5606268-20130616175517

I thought Ichigo would be as strong or stronger than the "Ulquiorra killer" form after he regained his powers. Sicarius001 has a good point in saying Urahara possibly getting involved with his bankai device, personally I think he'll learn it all by himself, he might be a little different as well.

As to whether Ichigo will be as strong or stronger than Zaraki? I think that Zaraki still has more skill with a blade than Ichigo, especially now, so unless they have a training bout, we won't really know.