'And if you look at the logs Ravon have posted in some of them iron grip drops so a strip/hook/disarm would have been disaster for him there.'
Surely his weapon is no_disarm?
I agree that its nice to have a beast of a character like this every so often. Also, it takes an exceptional player to make such a hard race/class so deadly. Realistically, how many people on these boards could pull a dark-elf antipaladin off to such a high standard? Not many. It wouldn't surprise me if Ravon is an imm-char though.