Quote Originally Posted by animus
Surge of hollow powers? He just pulled out his Shikai for the first time after getting his ass-whooped.
Seriously? You didn't realize that? Although it's kind of an assumption, the surge or reistsu that he gained to win that fight was heavily implied to be hollow powers. It was a large amount of foreshadowing, and many people speculated since the whole Ichigo getting his own powers by almost turning into a hollow.

Quote Originally Posted by animus
And your last statement is pretty much stating the most obvious fact ever.
And yet, people still say these things... So it apparently isn't obvious enough.