[Did a search and was surprised this didn't come up.]
An "anonymous" pair of contractors [Luthor & T'Challa] hires each merc to kill the other for a $50B pay day and a serum which will grant control of a 5th Dimension Imp/access to a cosmic cube (upon completion). Each merc has standard equipment only. Battle takes place in the Amazon, with each beginning on opposite sides of the Rain Forest.
If slade would be stupid enough to fair fight sabretooth then he fails hard not only in the fight but in character reactions. Slade is not going to stand toe to toe against someone who can out muscle him unless it's to draw them into a position that puts him at an advantage.
However Sabretooth's can ninja pretty well and is good in ambushes and his senses might give him a slight edge for finding slade. Slade will probably trap the hell out of an area and let sabes come to him.
6-7/10 Slades favor it comes down to whether or not Sabes is going to bull rush in and try to take him out with brute force.
This is basically a tracking and hunting scenario.... Sabretooth should rage stomp in this thread.
Wolverine doesn't even fair well with Sabretooth in this type of scenario and he has vast knowledge of his opponent that slade here doesn't.
__________________ "damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
dude please dont even attempt such nonsenses. They both know vastly more then you do. Infact srank the one who brought to light several things about DS that his fanboys were trying to play up as cannon, but were infact not amoung other things. Srank has displayed vast knolwedge of DS. In fact I easily wager he top 5 in overall knowledge of slade on the boards.