""I gave him the shorts and I said to him, 'If you win you keep, if you lose, you give me back.' Then he said to me, 'Coach, I would never lose.'... Then he took a patch with my logo and sewed it on the shorts," Nascimento told MMA Today."
""Right when I gave him the shorts, he went to the guys changing room, went to the sink, he washed [the shorts with soap], dried, went and hung it to dry... He went and submitted the guy with a D'Arce... Every fight he would ask for my shorts until the fight with Ikram [Aliskerov]. After that, he was without fighting for nine months. One day after training the manager came to the gym and said, 'Sign here... You go to Fight Island, you go to UFC.'... And then he couldn't use my shorts anymore.""
Alan "Finfou" Nascimento gave Khamzat Chimaev a pair of his own shorts before Chimaev's 2017 amateur debut against Khaled Laallam. Nascimento told Chimaev he could keep the shorts if he won, and Chimaev confidently replied that he would never lose. Chimaev washed the shorts, sewed a patch with his coach's logo onto them, and used them for every fight through his early career. Chimaev submitted Laallam in the first round with a brabo (D'Arce) choke and turned pro after two more amateur wins. A short-notice UFC contract for Fight Island prevented Chimaev from wearing the personal shorts under UFC kit rules.
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