Defending the clinch to "stop a fight going to the ground" is a lot harder than you might think. Anyone who's done full ranges MMA sparring wil know this.
Unfortunately many who haven't assume they have the answers.
There are a lot of Wing Chun people who claim to have effective "defences against a Kickboxer" or "against a grappler" but they never try them out in free sparring real time, they just do them in theory.
If you watch things like UFC you don't see WC people entering and keeping the grapplers at bay with traps and blasts - it just doesn't happen that way.
Having said that, the WC adaptations into Jun Fan that Bruce made do work against a KB or grappler, and are played regularly in JKD training clubs - we do the same drills here.
So as for the "Wing Chun" phase the JF will work on the mat in MMA as will the Feng Wei, as they cover the KB and grappling phases.
But don't expect some WC stuff you've been shown in some club by a landswimmer who's only seen MMA and UFC on TV from the comfort of his armchair to work against a real shoot - the clinch will happen and you will go down!
A good example I've been using - go outside the confines of MA and watch concepts from athletics. An athlete can do a 100 metre sprint in around 10 seconds. That's 10 metres a second.
How fast does the gap of under 2 metres across the mat get closed? That's why grappling range happens and why it's almost impossible to stop.
You need to learn how to fight on the floor.
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