Former UFC gentle heavyweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was booted from a flight this weekend after a disagreement with airline workers.
The incident came about on Saturday on a flight departing from Harry Reid Worldwide Airport in Las Vegas and stemmed from what gave the impression to be a misunderstanding between Nurmagomedov and the flight attendant over the ex-UFC fighter’s skill to help the crew within the occasion of an emergency since he was sitting in an emergency exit row.
The almost two-minute video begins with Nurmagomedov in the midst of a dialog with the airline workers as he tells them that “he is aware of the right way to assist individuals.”
At one level within the video, the staffer might be heard telling Nurmagomedov: “We can’t assist you to sit within the exit row.”
“I’m not going to do that forwards and backwards. I’ll go name a supervisor. You’ll be able to both take a unique seat or we are able to go forward and escort you off the aircraft,” she stated after Nurmagomedov tried to protest.
He continued to insist that he had totally complied with the flight crew.
“Once I was in check-in, they requested me do I do know English and I say sure,” he stated. “Then why you guys do that?”
A supervisor was introduced onto the aircraft and Nurmagomedov ultimately left the plane with none additional points.
A person believed to be a part of his touring get together may be seen exiting the aircraft after Nurmagomedov acquired off.
A number of media studies named the flight as Alaska Airways, however a spokesperson for the airline informed The Put up by way of e-mail that it had been “incorrectly” recognized.
“Now we have checked our data and didn’t have this particular person on an Alaska Airways flight that day,” the spokesperson stated.
Nurmagomedov addressed the incident in a publish on X on Sunday night and revealed that the airline concerned was Frontier.
“Girl who involves me with questions was very impolite from the very starting, despite the fact that I communicate very respectable English and might perceive every little thing and agreed to help, she nonetheless insists on eradicating me from my seat. What was the bottom for that, racial, nationwide or different one, I’m unsure,” he wrote.
“However after 2 minutes of dialog, she known as safety and I used to be deplaned from this plane, after 1,5 hour I boarded one other airline one and left to my vacation spot. I did my greatest to remain calm and respectful as you may see on the video. However these crew members might do higher subsequent time and simply be good with shoppers.”
A rep for Frontier Airways didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Put up.