The retired UFC fighter was concerned in a seating incident with Alaska Airways employees and was later escorted off the plane in Las Vegas within the US.
Footage has emerged on-line of Corridor of Fame UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov concerned in a seating dispute with airline employees at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport in Las Vegas that led to the Russian being escorted off a flight he was taking to Los Angeles.
The dispute centred round whether or not Nurmagomedov, who was sitting within the aircraft’s exit row, was ready, or ready, to assist different passengers within the occasion of an emergency.
On the video, an Alaska Airways flight attendant is seen asking the 36-year-old if he had the capability to help others from his window exit seat, ought to he be required to take action.
The incident was recorded on one other passenger’s cell phone and the flight attendant is heard to say, “We can’t help you sit within the exit row … I’m not going to do that forwards and backwards. I’ll go name a supervisor. You possibly can both take a special seat or we will go forward and escort you off the aircraft.”
Nurmagomedov responded to the flight attendant by saying, “It’s not truthful.” He’s additionally heard to say that he had totally complied with the flight crew in the course of the onboarding course of, and added: “Once I was in check-in, they requested me do I do know English… and I say sure. Then why you guys do that?”
The flight attendant’s supervisor, not happy by the response from the Final Preventing Championship (UFC) legend, was heard on the video repeatedly providing Nurmagomedov one other seat on the aircraft, in addition to providing him the choice to take one other flight. It has been reported that Nurmagomedov was then escorted off the plane, alongside together with his travelling companions.
It’s believed that Nurmagomedov was flying to California to assist his teammates forward of the UFC 311 occasion on January 18 in Los Angeles, Nevada within the US.
Nurmagomedov, a Muslim, was unbeaten (29-0) in his UFC profession and is taken into account by many to be one of many best MMA fighters of all time.
Alaska Airways and Nurmagomedov have but to touch upon the incident, which is believed to have occurred on January 11.
Khabib faraway from a aircraft? It appears even one of the vital well-known Muslims on the earth couldn’t escape racial profiling in America. It doesn’t matter what “standing” you’ve gotten.@AlaskaAir that is full rubbish. pic.twitter.com/o6XB3KMi77
— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman) January 12, 2025
