User blog comment:Thundrtri/Season 2 episode 14: Venator (Gladiator Animal Fighters) VS Smilodon (Saber tooth tiger)/@comment-4476906-20130625023913/@comment-11240140-20130630043328

The forarms of smilodon are comparable to those of bears, which can kill elk and moose with one strike. Smildon used its upper arms to grapple and take down prey. If a smilodon hit a person hard with its forarms it would be one and done. Smilodon wouldn't need multiple strikes to kill a person.