While it may not be true of all MMA fighters, the general consensus among them is that they have little to no respect for professional wrestlers.
They have a problem with the fact that the professional wrestling world is based solely on entertainment and the ‘wrestling’ is fake and staged. They know the skill that goes into MMA, where people train at schools like MMA Richmond in order to be competent and high quality fighters.
Those who fight in the MMA generally think that professional wrestlers don’t have anything like the same kind of work ethic or skill level, so they look down on them and don’t think that they are as important. Whether this is true is a subject that’s up for debate, of course, because professional wrestlers actually work very hard at what they do.
Despite that it seems likely that people in the MMA won’t start giving professional wrestlers any kind of respect for a very long time to come. As MMA becomes more mainstream and more wrestlers cross over, some respect might start to be earned.