I don't understand why so many people put Jenazzad on a pedestal...
Without knowing the circumstances of their fight you can't take
"the Elder had a difficult fight against him" to mean
"he is as strong as the Elder". He attacked Hongo with an attack he was sure wouldn't fail, but Hongo had a counter-technique ready (and btw, a move which had been already been introduced some good 80 chapters ago, it didn't come out of nowhere) and landed a killing blow after tearing himself apart to create that opening. Where is the asspull? Or just because he is stronger he should have been inherently invulnerable to anything that Hongo tried?