User blog comment:BlazeUchiha/Have Bankais lost their Status?/@comment-1932702-20100512142324

I'm still not convinced that Ichigo's physical strength should be 70. Remember, Byakuya is a stationary fighter who doesn't often use hand-to-hand combat simply due to a LACK OF NEED.

Ichigo is a melee fighter whose fighting revolves around physical attacks plus the occasional Getsuga. So he relies more on it. Also, if you check the article, it says that his strength is not to be taken lightly (not literally or directly). Let's put him between Byakuya and Kenpachi at 80. That puts him at 420. And I don't know about this but has anyone noticed that Ichigo's Bankai (which is supposed to enable hyperspeed combat) isn't giving much of that 'hyper speed' right now. Ichigo moves as normally as anyone else. so his speed should be around 80 so that evens it out at 410 again.