Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnder
After watching the parts that got cut, I'm really starting to think that all the older generation ninja were terrible.

I mean, their fight against Hanzo basically consisted of Jirayia shooting some spikes and Orochimaru using snake hands. And for that, they got their "Legendary Sannin" titles.

I can only assume that back in those days the bar for legendaryness was very low...
Yeah, either that or the whole fight was filler

In the manga they only showed the result, not the actual fight