Originally posted by Ascendancy
I'd have to go back and re-watch, but even from the first film I thought Connor was supposed to have trained under swordsmen in different parts of the world on his centuries of travel. If nothing else, he's been involved in many major conflicts, no? He certainly has a little bit of combat experience.
In the first film, Connor was shown to only have Ramirez as his teacher. However there is a scene where he is fighting an English noble by the name of Basset sometime during the Colonial era of America, mind you Connor was given a rapier and he was drunk-- and he kept on getting stabbed repeatedly by Basset until he gave up from being stabbed so much.
Connor also was in World War II, but he didn't appear to be fighting with American GI's considering he was in civilian attire and likely was running to get the hell out of that war zone.