Training and Reality

I have seen martial artists training over and over again - they are strong, fast, alert, confident and nothing seem to be able to bring them down. Yet, when reality struck, when it comes to competitions, real fight scenarios, I see the same people - minus everything that has been mentioned that they had in training. Real fights are nothing like practice or drills. Although drilling techniques and sequences of movements is the best method to gain realistic experience and for training that is closest to the real thing, not the best but the least that can be done.

Witnessing real fights - there has not been any real fights that looks like martial arts in the films and movies, it does not even look like what it usually or should look like in the gym, dojo, or wherever training is carried out in.
Except perhaps, shaolin monks who devotes their time and most of their lives to martial art.