We can now hype Tobirama's death

[USSJ Future Trunks]

Though none of those said that they were equal, chapter 386 (specifically page 5) Itachi states that "The two of them were equals in every possible way and were constantly competing to become the strongest." Not disagreeing with you, just showing you where some people would get that idea.

itachi was born several decades after these events and his only intel on izuna came from obito. they might have been equal in some areas but no one is alive to know that. its the same thing as hiruzens hype. it came so long ago we might as well ignore it

 

[Midday]

Kinkaku and Ginkaku attacking him is a seperate event from his death, those two beat him to near death alone on top of trying to kill the Raikage then they were kicked out of the village. After it was 20 Jounins who killed Tobirama.