In your example, RXY, Torg makes a point of the fact that he's making a pun; I think the stealing fences thing is a joke. Given that he states in the conversation with Chaz that he took fencing in college and does not appear to be joking, I think that is probably true.

My overall impression is that Torg really did have some sword training but was in no way a skilled professional (or even amateur). Chaz enhanced his abilities, and during the course of TWR, Torg's real skills improved significantly, very possibly aided by Chaz's powers.

I agree that it seems clear that Chaz seems to do that just in-hanse Torgs skill rather than take over, more like Dragonslicer rather than the others.Okay Horribus is a Demon Lord with millions of years of combat training and fighting under his belt and Torg had at most a 5 week crash corse in sword fighting and maybe a little fencing. Horribus would tare him apart. You hit it on the head, but they are not easier to kill, if anything they would be harder to kill, they have no pain and they have no organ functions to disrupt.
improved learning, that seems reasonable. I like it. Okay LadyBlanc means This, it seems Torg did have some fencing, over all I would say it was maybe a on and off thing. When Torg felt like it, AKA when he was board.

Bear in mind that demon skin apparently cannot be pierced with conventional weapons. Even completely untrained, Torg can hack through hordes of demons simply because they've never had to worry about playing defensively before. Still, Horb was a fighter for Lord Atrocioun, and apparently an important one at that. It is likely that he's had to fight enemies weilding anti-demon weaponry; at the very least he'd have prepared for that contingency.

I don't think Horribus is as formidible as people are making him out to be. Yeah, he's impossibly strong, I'll give you that. But he hasn't been fighting at all for probably thousands of years, just sitting around the DOP, and we don't know that he was that good back in the day, he was a cunning lacky but that's all we know. As demon lord Horribus has strength and power, not combat training. Heck, he's beyond clumsy! "That's a bad place for an anvil" comes to mind. Also he has extremely poor reflexes; when Mosp got in front of him in a blatant attack stance, getting between him and his prey, Horribus just let himself get impaled by a heavily telegraphed two handed thrust. Doesn't sound like a million year combat veteran to me. If someone with spikes for hands gets in front of you looking ready to kill, winds up and then thrusts, an experienced fighter would have a reaction! It's not like she caught him at a disadvantage either, he was mad, his adrenaline had to be at peak level, and with peak adrenaline comes peak reaction time. Still, he couldn't even try to stop the attack.

All Horribus has going for him is tremendous strength, and aparently the ability to incinerate demons in his hands. All that means is you can't let him touch you. Torg would have even odds using a sword capable of hurting a demon, just based on the abilities we know he has now. He can dodge Bun-bun striking from hug range, which makes him by far faster than Horribus and gives him relexes approaching superhuman. And that's without holding Chaz by the way, so he has reflexes that good on his own. Torg also has strength enough to cut clean through a whole demon torso or to knock out an alien version of himself with one punch. Plus, I say again, Horribus wanted to take Torg alive by the time they were facing eachother one on one and he also would have underestimated Torg's abilities, this puts the demon lord at a disadvantage. Add in the range advantage of a sword and, even if Chaz offer's no advantage besides being able to cut demon flesh, Torg could win it.

you meanthis Torg when I said I was speaking of this Torg. After a year of living by the sword he has learned how to use it and is ready to fight Horribus but it would still be an epic battle.