Good point. If other people are around getting the takedown may get you kicked in the head by the opponent's buddies. Been there.
YOu should attend the NCAA wrestling championships--in Oklahoma City in 2006: they were held in St Louis the last two years where I attended. The heavyweight champion, Steve Mocco, is also a national judo champion. Go figure. I am too old for this stuff now and have had to graduate to carrying my old .45; as they say, whatever it takes to win.
I think the point is that wrestlers have the requisite skills to win fights, balance, coordidation, and conditioning. If they can avoid the initial haymaker, iots hard to see how a good wrestler should lose to a street punk.