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Watch: Khabib Nurmagomedov removed from flight

13 January, 2025 10:15

UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was removed from a flight in the United State.

The bizarre incident took place at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, where Khabib was reportedly involved in a seating dispute with airline staff.

In a post on X on Monday, the UFC legend clarified that the incident occurred on a Frontier Airlines flight and questioned if he had been the victim of racial discrimination.

The footage of the verbal spat between the undefeated champions and airline staff went viral on scial media, with initial reports saying it took place on an Alaskan Airlines flight.

The dispute centred around whether Nurmagomedov, who was sitting in the plane’s exit row, was prepared, or able, to help other passengers in the event of an emergency.

The 36-year-old UFC champion, writing on X, said a flight attendant who spoke to him “was very rude from the very beginning”.

And even though he speaks “very decent English and can understand everything and agreed to assist, she still insists on removing me from my seat”, he said.

“What was the base for that, racial, national or other one, I’m not sure,” he added.

In the video, a flight attendant is heard telling Nurmagomedov, “We cannot allow you to sit in the exit row… I am not going to do this back and forth. I’ll go call a supervisor. You can either take a different seat or we can go ahead and escort you off the plane.”

The retired UFC fighter responded to the flight attendant by saying, “It’s not fair.”

The Russian fighter said the attendant called security after two minutes of conversation and that he was “deplaned” from the aircraft.

“After 1.5 hour [sic], I boarded another airline… and left [for] my destination,” he wrote on X.

It is believed that Nurmagomedov was flying to California to support his teammates ahead of the UFC 311 event on January 18 in Los Angeles, Nevada in the US.

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