how can you say he was drained and in the same breath say he went beyond anything ever seen? only thing "drained" was his anger, plus it was a plot device to let meik piss him off again.
get to the end of the same comic and you see a true draining of hulk, but that draining was no small feat as red hulk couldn't replicate it (he did drain savage hulk, so it's at least comparable to the surfer incident(s)), and i don't need to go over his resume in that aspect