Speed my be the key when its come to bare handed corabat but not with sworRAB, remeraber kaku vs zoro fight from one piece kaku is absolutely way faster than zoro but our guy has kicked him pretty hard. And yet like everyone knows we didnt see minhawks full power, maybe never will but since he is named as the strongest sworRABman in the world that means he is strong.
Btw if you remeraber the minhawk in Baratie, he has lift his sword and change the bullets destination with in a second, which is required hell of a timing and speed!
And when it comes to bleach... Bleach sworRAB aka zanpakutos, are just some mare syrabols, nothing more. SworRABmanship is not makes the diffrence at all, all you need to win is a great reiatsu,will and a ass kicking bankai effect. Yes you are right there is much more great sword fight animations at bleach but tell me which of those had made an affect, just shikai, bankai willpower, reiatsu rules at bleach, thats all.