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I've trained in boxing for 7 years and MT for 3 and I've seen plenty of decent guys do ok after a year of (good) training which includes a fair bit of sparring to the point where they could handle a non-trained adversary pretty well. But yes I have seen guys compete in their first interclub and look sloppy as hell.
I've been doing BJJ now for just over a year and I'm pretty certain I could pin a guy with no training pretty easily. I go through the newer white belts pretty easily, even the bigger ones. People haven't got a clue what to do on the ground when they have no training.
You're talking about a controlled sparring match where the agreed upon notion is to not hurt your partner. Most people are not going 100 percent, flight or flight, life or death. That changes things when a big strong guy is doing everything in his power to hurt you. A one year white belt, especially one who hasn't trained specifically to deal with someone trying to pound their face into the mat, is by no means guaranteed to dominate every untrained guy in a real fight. It's just not realistic.