Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32369776-20170706150024/@comment-25643824-20170709201946

@DanteMustDie69 Madara discovered the uchia hideout with the stone tablets before his fight with hashirama and he planned ahead with izanagi and intentionally bit off piece of hashirama's flesh for his experiment latter on. So yes he fought hashirama hard but he had something greater in mind than just a fight with hashirama which was immortality.

And if you read through the posts you'll understand the reason for the reference to their fight.