Originally posted by srankmissingnin
If you've ever seen a fight between to martial artists you'd know the majority of the fight, isn't actually fighting, but two guys circling each other; they both want to find an opening and the hit the other guy without getting hit themselves (because one good punch can end a fight). There is no place for that style of combat with Wolverine and Sabretooth, both of them have no need for any sort of defence and concentrate wholly of offensive without it being detrimental. It's not the speed of the combatants that renders any martial arts obsolete, rather the breakneck pace of the battle. It's full out, balls to the wall, combat in close quarters with no breaks and no chances for the other guy to take his breath.When Wolverine and Sabretooth go into a berserker rage, they become prefect killing machines, two forces of nature that act on pure instinct with no conscious thought. In such a state martial arts becomes obsolete because they have achieved what every martial art strives for.
A quote from the Dark Tower... I think it applies here.
"They are killers by an instinct that needs no honing."
When sabertoth entered his enhanced feral rage then he shoulve easily ened wolverine, yet since wolverine was in control and able to think (went and got the mura masa) he beat sabertooth, yet according to what you're saying wolverine shouldve been easily killed by sabertooth