The retired UFC fighter was concerned in a seating incident with Frontier 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.
In a submit on X describing what occurred, Nurmagomedov stated that the incident occurred on a Frontier Airways flight and {that a} flight attendant who spoke to him “was very impolite from the very starting”.
“Regardless that I converse very first rate English and may perceive the whole lot and agreed to help, she nonetheless insists on eradicating me from my seat,” Nurmagomedov stated.
“What was the bottom for that, racial, nationwide or different one, I’m unsure,” he added.
To start with, I must make clear that it was @FlyFrontier not AlaskaAir.
Woman who involves me with questions was very impolite from the very starting, although I converse very first rate English and may perceive the whole lot and agreed to help, she nonetheless insists on eradicating me from my…— khabib nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib) January 12, 2025
The dispute centred round whether or not Nurmagomedov, who was sitting within the airplane’s exit row, was ready, or in a position, to assist different passengers within the occasion of an emergency.
On the video, a Frontier Airways flight attendant is seen asking the 36-year-old if he has 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 saying, “We can’t assist you to sit within the exit row… I’m not going to do that backwards and forwards. I’ll go name a supervisor. You possibly can both take a special seat or we will go forward and escort you off the airplane.”
Nurmagomedov responded to the flight attendant by saying, “It’s not honest.” He’s additionally heard to say that he had totally complied with the flight crew throughout the onboarding course of, and added: “After 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 Combating Championship (UFC) legend, was heard on the video repeatedly providing Nurmagomedov one other seat on the airplane, in addition to the choice to take one other flight. It has been reported that Nurmagomedov was then escorted off the plane, alongside along with his travelling companions.
It’s believed that Nurmagomedov was flying to California to help his teammates forward of the UFC 311 occasion on January 18 in Los Angeles, Nevada in 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.
Frontier Airways has but to touch upon the incident, which is believed to have occurred on January 11.
