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Think about it, the UFC has only been big for a little while. There are very few people who grew up with MMA being mainstream. In the next generation we will have parents who instill things like wrestling, boxing, bjj fundamentals at young ages. We will have athletes who understand from the get-go what is useful and what is not (aikido)
Do you have any idea how LOOONNNGGG people have been saying that? Yet here we are in 2018 still with the majority of champs with amateur wrestling backgrounds (Cejudo, TJ, Khabib, Tyron, Cormier) And not all, but the majority of top people they are fighting, or going to fight (mighty mouse, T-Ferg, Kevin Lee, Colby, Bones, Stipe, Weidman, Rockhold) do as well.
Of course, other disciplines matter, but wrestling is never going to be knocked off the perch as the most impactful skill overall. The sooner knuckleheads learn this the better.