The first X-Men movie never really delved into the rivalry between Victor and Logan, and, in fact, the two only had a few minor dust-ups on-screen. Instead, James Marsden’s Cyclops, with an assist from Wolverine and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) was the one to take Vic out of the movie with an optic blast to the face that sent him plunging from the top of the Statue of Liberty.

However, that doesn’t mean Logan and Victor never fought again in live-action. They clashed several times in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But X-Men Origins does almost nothing right, including debuting Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. It was good casting but he’s made almost immediately unrecognizable when his mouth is sewed up during the third act of the film.

That said, Liev Schreiber does make for a pretty menacing Sabertooth, who is revealed onscreen to indeed be the half brother of Logan (or Jimmy, as he was originally named). The best part of the movie occurs in the opening credits, which follows Sabertooth and Wolverine’s participation in various wars across the centuries. Schreiber uses his ability to play stillness to emphasize the potential threat always posed by Victor, only breaking into a full rage when Sabertooth and Wolverine fight. These fights look terrible (made worse by the strange animal-running that Sabertooth does), but it did actually happen.

So why does Deadpool pretend that Wolverine and Sabertooth haven’t fought onscreen yet? The man is nuts, sure, but he certainly wouldn’t just forget. And while we haven’t seen Jackman’s Wolverine fight this version of Sabertooth to the death in 20 years, that doesn’t seem like the type of quibble that would concern Deadpool.

Maybe, just maybe, Wade changed the timeline when he used Cable’s device and killed the Origins version of himself in the post-credit scene of Deadpool 2. Maybe, Origins doesn’t exist at all! Maybe that’s why Wade doesn’t acknowledge Wolverine and Sabertooth’s other fights! And maybe that’s why Kevin Durand has been putting in such good work lately, in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Abigail, because he doesn’t get those sweet residual checks for playing the Blob in Origins!

Or maybe it’s just a funny line and I’m reading too much into it. Anyway, Wolverine fights Sabertooth. Looks cool.