"Lets say that I rarely comment with emotions.
Instead, I happen to work with people who know how things move behind the scenes."
Im actually familiar with some of your work. I believe I have your interview with Eddie Goldman NHB on my favorites list and plan on listening to it soon. I knew your name from Sherdog and encountered some of your stuff while during research for a series of articles I am working on hopefully to be published by Intermat. I believe it was my research into Noriaki Kiguchi that led me to some of your stuff.
"And the opinion is that popularity of Greco is lower than submission grappling (mind that I said POPULARITY, not the infrastructure of the sport or participation at this point), besides the money UWW is investing in Grappling."
I can see this being true. Since you're not basing this opinion on participation or infrastructure Im guessing its based more on things like web traffic, views, overall perception, etc?
"Important thing is that the blueprint is there and when the need arises, UWW will look to replace Greco with something, appealing to the younger crowd, which is Grappling."
As much as I can see this being reality, its still really hard to wrap my head around. So many countries love Greco. Probably as much as they do freestyle. Especially Russia, and Russia holds a lot of sway in the IOC. But the fact remains, even wrestling fans sometimes get bored watching Greco, and grappling resonates much more with the MMA fanbase which is obviously huge.
"It is sad, because Greco was my first sport and I still love it to bits.
And as unfortunate as it is, once Greco is not an Olympic sport, it will most probably be practiced only recreational"
Indeed it is very sad if it happens. Especially for countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, etc who are hugely successful in Greco and not nearly as much in freestyle. Even sadder when you consider that Greco has the potential to be tremendously exciting, but only at times.