So why no wing chun in mma? Well, why few other Kung Fu styles and Japanese Jujitsu; why no Silat, Ninjitsu, Hapkido, Aikido; Why the hell no freakin KRAV MAGA! Why? These are not sports! These are self defense styles. There is a huge difference.
Then why does Wing Chung and all of these others forms of MA you've listed also conduct sporting competitions, pass out medals & trophies, etc.? And not just locally, but internationally. And such WC competitions are much more strict with many, many, many more rules and safety gear than MMA, and especially much less brutal than MMA. When was the last time someone in a WC tournament was allowed take his opponent down and elbow him in the face repeatedly with no padding on?
Well... that and... a lot of skilled martial artist are not willing to fight few hundred thousand(if they are lucky) when a boxer can make 10s of millions for losing fight.
Well only the top boxers makes 10's of millions per fight, guaranteed. Most pro boxers at the bottom have a very difficult time getting a break. While a full time martial artist, is starving even worse and doesn't really make much money at all. Most can't even live off of it, let alone turn down $100,000 fight offers. Most MA'ist will cream their pants if they were given an opportunity to fight for a guaranteed $100,000, let alone a "few hundred thousands". When was the last time people paid money to see a Karate, Kung-Fu, WC, w/e tournament and it sells out every seat? The reason that these martial artists don't fight for money is because they know they'll get their asses whooped in an MMA cage. And they can't just step into the UFC anytime they feel like it, they'd have to prove that they're good fighters by fighting & winning many smaller venues first. Even then, the first fight in the UFC is only going to be for a few thousand dollars.
Quick tangent, Self defence styles are more deadly, but don't work unless you also practice a sport(boxing, mauy tai, etc) so you can feel what it is like to take and gave a real punch.
This is a myth. A garden variety White belt in BJJ can kill anyone once his choke is locked in because a choke is a death move. We just don't make a big deal out of it for marketing purposes. Mike Tyson, who's a sports fighter.....wait, forget Tyson...any nobody, amateur boxer, who knocks you out with 1 punch can then kill you if he wanted to with head stomps as you're lying there on the ground KTFO and helpless.
hell of a lot more chops and finger strikes to the neck and eyes(illegal in mma).
Also illegal in WC tournaments. But I don't see what's the big deal. Someone who trains to punch, especially boxers, can eye poke people just as good or better than any WC. And any MMA can target the neck and eyeballs also. It's not like these moves are exclusive to WC. And WC never pokes anyone for real in the eye nor struck them in the neck during training anyway, you just pretend to. I just got hit with a superman punch right in the neck last week. Didn't even hurt, let alone kill me. Afterwards, felt like I had a sore throat/illness. Sliding sidekick to the throat, now that one hurt but I didn't die neither. Didn't even stop fighting, just got mad.
Then there are the dangerous that would mostly be illigal in the UFC: foot stomps, knee breaks, and droping the foot hard on the the leg just below knee and pressing down(remember this is not a sport, so we wear shoes).
Foot stomps are legal legal in the UFC, may have changed recently, IDK. But I've never seen anyone lose from them. And getting struck on the knee is common. It's not legal, but accidents happen. Never seen anyone lose from such neither. Again, MMA fighters can kick someone's knees out too on the streets as well as eye poke and nut kick, etc...what's the big deal about these techniques?
Again, WC doesn't allow these illegal moves neither in their own WC tournaments.