Nightcrawler's deep wound ability is rather inconsistent in it's interactions as a bleed ability. This is specific to Cable and Abomination where Cable doesn't activate degeneration upon his deep wound activation but Abomination activates a poison.
When entering a fight with Auto Fight initially activated, the fight does not start in Auto Fight and you have to manually press it again. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7oxdkbtc7hnaarx/Video%20Jan%2008%2C%2009%2056%2022.mov?dl=0