Khabib Nurmagomedov Leaves Flight Over Seat Dispute

Khabib Nurmagomedov was taken off a flight over the weekend following a seating disagreement with the airline’s workers.

The incident, which came about on a flight leaving Las Vegas’ McCarran Worldwide Airport on Saturday, was captured on video and posted to social media. Within the video, you hear a flight attendant asking Nurmagomedov, who’s sitting within the emergency exit row, if he was ready and in a position to help different passengers within the occasion of an emergency.

The flight attendant says, “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’ll be able to both take a distinct seat or we are able to go forward and escort you off the airplane.”

Nurmagomedov seems visibly pissed off by the state of affairs and responds, “It’s not truthful” whereas sustaining he absolutely complied with the flight crew throughout the verify in course of. He tells the flight attendant, “After I was in check-in, they requested me do I do know English… and I say sure. Then why you guys do that?”

Regardless of the UFC legend’s pushback, a supervisor was introduced onto the airplane and allegedly gave Nurmagomedov the choice to modify seats or to take one other flight. When no decision was reached, Nurmagomedov was faraway from the airplane.