{"id":96849,"date":"2025-01-13T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=96849"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:58:00","slug":"seat-spat-ufc-legend-khabib-nurmagomedov-kicked-out-of-flight-at-las-vegas-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/96849\/","title":{"rendered":"Seat spat: UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov kicked out of flight at Las Vegas airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- Russian mixed martial arts fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov was removed from a flight in the United States after a seating dispute with airline staff at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.\u00a0In a video widely circulating on social media, airline staff can be seen confronting the martial arts fighter and asking him to shift seats as passengers were not comfortable with him sitting near the emergency exit, according to\u00a0<em>Al Jazeera.\u00a0<\/em>The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) legend clarified in a post on X that the incident occurred on a Frontier Airlines flight after initial reports stated it happened on an Alaskan Airlines flight.\u00a0 Nurmagomedov also questioned if he had been subjected to racial discrimination adding that a flight attendant who spoke to him &#8220;was very rude from the very beginning&#8221;.\u00a0 He added that he speaks &#8220;very decent English and can understand everything and agreed to assist, she still insists on removing me from my seat&#8221;.\u00a0 \u201cWhat was the base for that, racial, national or other one, I\u2019m not sure,\u201d he added. The legendary athlete did not clarify when the incident happened and the airline is yet to make a comment on the issue.\u00a0 The video, recorded and shared by another passenger, a flight attendant is heard telling Nurmagomedov that: &#8220;We cannot allow you to sit in the exit row [\u2026] I am not going to do this back and forth. I\u2019ll go call a supervisor. You can either take a different seat or we can go ahead and escort you off the plane&#8221;.\u00a0 To which the retired UFC fighter responded with, &#8220;It&#8217;s not fair&#8221;.\u00a0 He continued, saying that he had fully complied with the flight crew during the check-in process before the flight and, &#8220;They asked me, &#8216;Do I know English [\u2026] and I said, &#8216;Yes.&#8217; Then why do you guys do this?'&#8221; The flight attendant&#8217;s manager was not satisfied with lightweight UFC champion&#8217;s response and offered the fighter another seat on the plane or take another flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- Russian mixed martial arts fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov was removed from a flight in the United States after a seating dispute with airline staff at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.\u00a0In a video widely circulating on social media, airline staff can be seen confronting the martial arts fighter and asking him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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