End of phase 1.
That night, Creed was walking into a charity ball. As he entered, people came up to shake his hand or compliment his heroics. He was used to it by now, but he wondered why they even bothered. He started this gig around the same time Logan did. He was only out to prove who was better. He wasn't a nice man, wasn't even a good man. These people didn't know it.
And the charity auction started, he walked in with a smile. He had to keep up appearances as the Mighty Sabretooth.