He’s what? 18? Basically nothing in viltrumite timeframe.
Literally gets dominated by Lucan using one finger.
Then he gets his ass beat by Thula, who has hundreds of years of experience minimum, mind you viltrumites get stronger with age, aaand somehow a pep talk allows him to almost kill her? What? Mind you, in the comics this Thula threw down with Battle Beast and walked away alive
I don’t think there was anything indicating he was close at all. He looked like he got into a fight with Muhammad Ali in a bare-knuckle boxing match, whereas she looked like she just tripped and busted her lip on a door frame.