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It is true that the torque you would have to apply with your wrist would be much less that way...but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be using your all that terribly much in swordplay anyway. A little bit, of course, but I don't think that it's the dominant muscle group (my guess would be the tricep, but the shoulder and even the hips come into play here). Thus, by giving your wrist that particular advantage, you subtract a bit of an advantage from the rest of your arm, which is structured in such a way as to move objects best (with minimum exertion) when the entire center of mass (that of your arm AND the sword) is at your hand.
Though let's not overcomplicate this. Really, you don't want the center of mass at the hilt because that either means you have a relatively heavy and mildy awkward counterbalance, or a very light blade...and light blades mean thinner blades...which means less structural intergrity.
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Is that what you really want to say?
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