lol well that's a plausible theory, but pay close attention to pvp drop inventories, i checked yours a couple of days ago and it's not much different from mine, however your fights is almost only half of mine. my pvp drop rate is always low consistently. After lvl 100 all i got is butterfly knives which is pretty boring and bad.
in regards to respect points, it's of a lot of reasons, my rp is prbly higher than you. it's just a matter of how to spend it. I spend a lot on whips which might not be the best at this time, but was an good option when rival list is flooded with low lvl players lol. but now, i start to focus on goggles for this matter.
anyways i threw this question because i have seen ppl with not much different inventory but with much higher stat, like Rainbow, her inventory is nearly the same (well with maybe 80 more goggles and so forth), but her def is 10000 above mine a week ago! and im always curious how is that happening?