Eugene Bareman highlighted where Movsar Evloev differs from grapplers like Islam Makhachev.

UFC legend Jose Aldo urged the promotion to cut Evloev if he suffers the first loss of his career this Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

The former featherweight champion certainly isn’t the first fighter to criticize the Russian’s style and lack of finishes inside the Octagon.

While Evloev credits the educated fans for keeping him in the UFC, Bareman believes there’s one aspect to the challenger that gets overlooked.

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Eugene Bareman highlights Movsar Evloev’s ‘death by a thousand punches’ approach when grappling

Alexander Volkanovski isn’t overlooking Movsar Evloev ahead of his next featherweight title defense and neither is his coach.

Eugene Bareman is confident heading into this matchup but rates their challenger incredibly highly, completely disregarding his lack of finishes.

The City Kickboxing coach recently dived into what he believes gives Evloev a “unique style” that in his opinion, “gets a little bit mistaken.

Bareman highlighted that the Russian is very active in grappling scenarios when it comes to landing strikes and isn’t the type of fighter who looks to gain control and “hug” his opponents.

“He always has some sort of blunt force trauma,” he told She Loves The Gloves. “He always has something hitting you. You can’t say that about someone like Islam [Makhachev] or Khabib [Nurmagomedov], who will spend long periods of time, like 45 seconds, a minute, holding you. Movsar will always release and punch and it’s almost constant.”

Many have pointed to the success that Volkanovski had against Makhachev in their first fight when predicting the outcome of this weekend’s main event.

While the current welterweight champion is more of a submission threat, Bareman describes Evloev’s approach as “death by a thousand punches”.

He believes that while their next opponent could look to land more damaging shots instead, he produces a lot of output in order to stop referees from breaking up grappling exchanges.

“It’s a brilliant strategy,” Bareman said.

Eugene Bareman is expecting a long night for Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 333

Given Movsar Evloev’s track record, it seems more likely that if a finish does happen in Saturday’s main event, it will come from Alexander Volkanovski.

Eugene Bareman isn’t expecting this to happen given how highly he rates the challenger that they have in front of them.

He believes that Volkanovski will be able to edge out the rounds, but doubts that the matchup won’t be competitive for the entire duration.

“I think Movsar’s going to be right there,” he said. “10-9, 10-9, 10-9, but only by the hair of it. I think just Movsar’s too good. He’s too good to pull away from, but we’re going to try.”