Originally posted by MythLord
They're threats, but that doesn't neccessarily mean they'll win every round. Especially not when Round 4 and 5 is Mace just a few steps away from his Vaapad-Sidious-fighting self.
He isn't, in order to achieve the same state as in RotS against Sidious he also needs the darkness of an opponent to draw on, that's what creates a superconductive loop and thus his amplification. In this case the opponent's darkness/power is just less then Sidious's which means he isn't going to achieve the same state as in RotS.