UFC's Alan Jouban: Odor's Punch Was Dope ... 'Set the Bar' for Sports Brawls!

Rougned Odor's fist of fury is making waves over in the UFC ... where welterweight bad ass Alan Jouban was praising the Texas Rangers star for the clean shot he delivered over the weekend.

Jouban -- who's a Versace model when he's not fighting (hence the killer good looks) -- says non-combat sport athletes like baseball, soccer and basketball players usually SUCK at fighting ... but Odor proved everyone wrong!

In fact, Jouban says he "kind of set the bar for the rest of the combat sports world."

Jouban also praised Jose Bautista's chin (dude took the shot and didn't go down) ... but says in the future, it's probably smarter to NOT get blasted in the face like that.