well in a sense its like real life, like in boxing some people lose to others but it goes in a circle because some of the people can beat others that the best or others that can beat them, lose horribly, comics mirrors this with the likes of superman, thor, silver surfer yata yata, oh and orion has has his ass almost handed to him before their fight was cut short with interuptions, so superman can take orion... big deal orion isn't too powerful until he has momentum, but so does most heroes or villains at their level so whats the big deal eh?
forumers are jokes hidden on the internet, now THAT is fact!