Again when the UFC was booming in Brazil within the early 2010s, with Anderson Silva reaching celebrity standing, Allan Nascimento was one of many hottest prospects in Brazilian MMA.
However lots has modified since.
Nascimento stumbled alongside the best way in regional exhibits earlier than lastly becoming a member of the UFC a decade later. Now he’s extra mature than ever for the challenges he’s going through contained in the octagon, and one of many secrets and techniques behind that development, Nascimento mentioned on MMA Preventing’s Trocação Franca podcast, helps Chute Boxe chief Diego Lima as cornerman.
“It’s previous time since I heard I used to be a MMA prospect, this child developing — time has actually handed,” Nascimento mentioned with fun. “Thank God I managed to make a reputation for myself in MMA. I’m with Diego Lima for 16 years now, I’m the longest tenured athlete with him since he began, so we have now nice chemistry collectively. Plenty of fighters belief me and like having me of their nook. That’s nice for me too.”
Chute Boxe presently has 10 fighters below UFC contract, together with former light-weight champion Charles Oliveira, and Nascimento has labored of their corners many occasions over the previous few years. “Puro Osso”, whose UFC win streak within the flyweight division sits at two following victories over Jake Hadley and Carlos Hernandez, will fly to Mexico in February to nook Daniel Santos and Felipe dos Santos.
Being an lively fighter and cornerman helps him in multiples methods, he defined, as a result of “the imaginative and prescient we have now from the surface is totally different. It helps in trusting what the [cornerman] is saying. Typically we’re within the octagon and we hear what they are saying however we attempt to comply with the technique we have now inside our heads. And being a cornerman, I say what my fighter actually wants to listen to. In combating, I’m like, ‘I’ll take heed to what he’s saying as a result of it’s extra prone to occur.’ That studying is essential for us.”
Nascimento received’t be in Oliveira’s nook for the previous champ’s subsequent bout, however he’s assured that “do Bronx” will deliver the UFC belt again to the staff in 2024 if he’s subsequent in line for Islam Makhachev. They had been anticipated to rematch in October after Oliveira completed Beneil Dariush in June, however the Brazilian withdrew 10 days out as a result of a minimize.
“The entire staff is working for that,” Nascimento mentioned. “We’re simply ready for the date, time, and place, and we’ll be there. It’s the combat that makes essentially the most sense for everybody concerned, UFC, Charles and Makhachev. It truly is a troublesome combat, he’s the champion as we speak, however I feel Charles has a special mindset now on what must be completed. The concept is to not give [Makhachev] any openings.”
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