EmperorSidious2
Master of Magic
That's ludicrous. Sidious has far more power enough to overwhelm his opponents. Only the likes of Yoda Dooku and mace could block that with their force walls. Maul can't. Right timing doesn't necessarily play a roll in this as the opponent can have all of thier force defenses up, but a more powerful opponent can break through them.
Expanded universe forum. Canon would have to be speciffacly stated for this to be canon only.
I have seen that. I'm very impressed by that. However how about you post where it's says he APPEARED to win the fight showing its more than meets the eye? You can't ignore the other sides evidence just because it challenges what you believe.
The novelization pretty much shows it was a boost that he received due to the Sidious rage and his trust and love being destroyed, watching his brothers die over a war manipulated by the very person he sought to destroy, and the person leading the republic was the Sith. All of that fueled it and after that he was still only able to stalemate Sidious. So really no matter what nothing proves mace was a better deulist or,anything. Due to common sense and I believe psychology, mace wouldn't receive that same boost if he ever fought Sidious again since his own end of inner darkness would be less.