TORONTO – Movsar Evloev has done nothing but win since he debuted with the UFC in April 2019. But in his nearly five years on the roster, he hasn’t been able to stop an opponent.
The unbeaten featherweight contender hopes to change that on Saturday, however, when Evloev (17-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) meets Arnold Allen (19-2 MMA, 10-1 UFC) on the UFC 297 main card at Scotiabank Arena. After going to the scorecards in all of his octagon appearances to do date, there would be no bigger and better moment to do something different this time around, and his head coach, Marcos “Parrumpa” DaMatta of American Top Team, admits awareness of the opportunity.
“It’s something on the back of his mind,” DaMatta told MMA Junkie. “It’s not that he doesn’t want to finish. It’s that he’s still developing some kind of his game to actually get to the finish. Nowadays it’s kind of hard to finish someone that actually knows jiu-jitsu, because everyone trains jiu-jitsu now. So there’s other ways to finish with striking, with using striking to go into submissions. We’re trying to put that into his game, so that’s always something that’s on the back of his mind.”
