When I fought fully armored full contact medieval style foot combat, one of our chapter members when I was in Florida had a black belt in Kenjutsu. I regularly beat him as I was not locked into a style.
Having handled many "battle ready" swords, never thought i wanted a Katana or Japanese style blade.
This is about half my collection of swords. I also have a LOT of knives, many axes, a few spear plus maces and war hammers.