Can you kill a wolf with just a knife?

Can you kill a wolf with just a knife?
I know people who can kill a wolf without a knife.
These people could be of a different species if you solely looked at the difference in their abilities.
Some people I know have as much muscle in their body as I weigh and I’m no feather myself.
Humans are capable as grapplers/wrestlers. This is something a wolf is incapable of doing and defenseless against. Humans can also strike very hard, in fact with training humans can shatter bricks and bone with their strikes.
The following is a list of things that a human defending his life against a wolf attack would be trying to do. Don’t try any of these at home as you will easily die or get permanent injuries and even if you win you’ll be killing a proud animal, potentially unnecessarily. These are to be viewed as martial arts theory on fighting wolves, strictly academically speaking.

When it tries to bite you, use your other arm to thrust it’s head sideways to protect your other arm
Try to grab a hold of the wolf
If at any time you’re able to, lock your thighs around it’s lungs and squeeze like your life depended on it (because it does)
Try to use one hand to get a good grip of it’s throat and don’t be squeamish – try to grab a hold of the windpipe (trachea) and don’t let go, holding a wolf by it’s throat allows you to twist it’s head away from you and helps you avoid being bitten – note that you’ll need to approach the throat from below the jaw and move really fast and you’re risking the wolf sinking it’s teeth in the gaps of your wrist bones which will be really difficult to break off
If the wolf manages to grab your wrist, use your other arm to gouge at it’s eyes (again, don’t be squeamish, you’d be fighting for your life )
You can also try to dislocate it’s jaw or pry it open with your other arm
Alternatively you can now use your free arm to grab it’s windpipe and crush it if you have the grip strength to do so (applying thumb against your clenched first finger can generate a really strong pincer)
As the wolf is closing in on you or pouncing it has limited sideways movement and can’t evade well – if it is leaping it is not impossible to land a heavy kick or strike on it’s snout
If you’ve practiced a lot of martial arts it is possible you could crush it’s snout with a forceful hit
So, we see there are a lot of things you can do to fight an individual wolf.
If you have a knife, the situation changes considerably.
Ideally, if you have a knife you won’t want to get too close to the wolf. You would like it to try and leap at you in which case you can make a last second rolling evasion.
For instance if your knife is in your right hand, you could hold your left arm in front and your knife arm retracted with the palm next to your hip with the knife pointing at the wolf.
As the wolf pounces or leaps you would try to have it go for your extended left arm. As it is approaching fast you’ll step with your right left forward and to the right, turning the leg 90 degrees to left while also changing your body orientation while pulling back the left arm and using the torsion to thrust as fast as you can at the the left side of the wolf.
Everything going as in the movies, you’d dodge the attack and stab the wolf deep to it’s torso on the left side.
And if you fail you can quickly return to this stance and try again. In fact you could in theory keep doing this all night long considering it uses almost no energy and is easy and quick to do.
If the wolf managed to seize your left arm then it would certainly die since you’d hack away at it with deep stabs towards it’s neck area.
An alternate stance to use would be to crouch down a little and hold your left arm in front and right arm with the knife again next to your hip with the left arm being the extended and expected target. As the wolf closes in you could try to retract your left arm like before while thrusting directly between the upper part of it’s breast and lower part of it’s throat or even at it’s mouth.
I would personally prefer the dodging maneuver since it involves a dodge and you’re less likely to miss by accidentally only grazing skull or so and even when hitting you’re less likely to be knocked over by being hit by it’s body.
Without a knife it’s a real and serious challenge to fight against a single wolf even if you’ve got martial arts background.
With a knife a single wolf becomes considerably more manageable but again, wolves rarely move alone and even then an experienced martial artist would be up for a serious challenge and would find oneself “in jaws of peril”.
Luckily the wolves don’t usually like to attack people but there’s a catch.
If you’re this hulking berserker of a human who’s arms are the size of two ordinary men, you’re more likely to both prevail and also be avoided by wolves.
Because wolves always think about getting the most meat with the least effort. It’s hardly ever worth a snack to potentially lose members of the pack!
So, if they were to attack a human they’d pick the weakest imaginable targets. Of adults, small men or small women, weak old people and children. Essentially whoever looks like they’re not going to put up a big fight.
And this is why it’s hard for a human to fight a wolf. Unless you’ve got a rifle and you’re out to reduce the pack that has wandered too close to human habitation you’re not likely to get to fight them even if you could stand against them bare handed or with a knife.
If you’re unlikely to stand up against a big dog then you’re also most likely of any human to get attacked by a wolf pack.
This is why hunters like to take out wolves. Hunters have children.

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