Yeah exactly, so practicing sword fighting doesn't prepare you for real sword fighting as good as boxing prepares you for a real-life fist fight. Because you c

Yeah exactly, so practicing sword fighting doesn't prepare you for real sword fighting as good as boxing prepares you for a real-life fist fight. Because you can practice boxing at full force, and you can find out if you're able to knock someone down. Of course noone goes 100% on every sparing, but once in a while, or in competitions - entirely possible. Every practice is an approximation, sure, but some approximations are (inevitably) orders of magnitude more crude than others.