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A clicker won't stop a fight because a clicker is not an interrupt signal. Anyone trying to use a clicker to stop a fight, knows nothing about clicker training.
A clicker trainer would never even let the fight occur in the first place because they know when trying to establish new behavior patterns, it is best if the subject doesn't get to practiced the old undesirable behaviors; they understand the importance of environmental control when dealing with such a situation. A clicker trainer would also know about stimulus thresholds, so again they wouldn't let their dog get close enough to start a fight.
Cross training a dog from traditional methods to clicker is fairly easy, though there can be some problems because pack/alpha methods tend to produce dogs that do nothing/shut down when they are uncertain. Using a clicker to reward for cut off signals, or any pro social behavior as well as othe incompatible behaviors has proven successful. Emma Parson's Click to Calm gives an excellent overview of what this entails.
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