Coach: 'Khabib Nurmagomedov was racially | MMA News
Video of former UFC light-weight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov being faraway from a Frontier Airlines flight went viral on Sunday. The 36-year previous retired fighter was seated within the emergency exit row however was requested to maneuver. A flight attendance was involved with Nurmagomedov’s capability to successfully talk in English within the occasion of an emergency.
Nurmagomedov left the airplane with out incident and took a later flight to his vacation spot. His coach, Javier Mendez, believes Nurmagomedov was ‘racially profiled.’
“He didn’t say nothing to me. I didn’t hear nothing. This happened last week when he was coming back from Utah, either going to Utah or coming from Utah from skiing,” Mendez advised Submission Radio. “They didn’t say anything to me. They’re very quiet about it, so I would think that Khabib didn’t think much of it. But the whole world is thinking a lot of it because they racially profiled him, one-million percent.”
“They racially profiled him because he was wearing a hoodie and they were uncomfortable with him wearing a hoodie. But you know why he was wearing a hoodie because he’s a super famous athlete in the world and he doesn’t want to be recognized,” Mendez continued.
Mendez believes an injustice was finished however he additionally is aware of that Nurmagomedov is not going to pursue any motion towards the airline.
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“I know him. He’s not going to do nothing about it, but I think people that love him or love justice are going to be up in arms about this,” Mendez stated. “It’s outrageous. The should be held accountable.
“I really feel that they need to donate money to the victims of the L.A. fire of a generosity of goodwill and the entire bit. Khabib shouldn’t be going to be too trouble by it as a result of he is a man of God. He’s simply going to take a look at it like if Allah wished him to be in that airplane then he would have been in that airplane, so he’ll simply take it in stride. I do not assume Khabib will even discuss it, but it surely’s not a matter of Khabib speaking about it. It’s a matter of us speaking concerning the racial injustice that goes on on this world and people issues ought to by no means occur.”
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