Originally Posted by
Jabare
you can't get current Luke without classic Powerman
For classic cage I'd rank him around the 15 ton range.
You could argue the second treatment kind of boosted everything. Depends, if you are going by handbooks or showings. In the 90s, he had some feats that arguably put him in a higher stat class. Then with Bendis in the 2000s and subsequent showings in the 2010s he was written as a mid-tier or higher.
He went from Spider-Man level to maybe a little stronger to beating the likes of Rhino and Venom. Casually lifting semi-trucks, thunder claps, brawling with the Thing. Going toe to toe with Proxima Midnight. If you want to be a stickler about it, you'd argue he's overperforming his stat book ranking, but I think it served to better his character for major events and team books like Avengers. I won't get into stat drift but we've seen it with other characters over the years like Spider-Man and some other street levelers. Tomorrow or this weekend I'll post some scans from some of the fights I mentioned.