The nearly two-minute video starts with Nurmagomedov in the middle of a conversation with the airline staff as he tells them that “he knows how to help people.”

UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has spoken out after he was escorted off a plane over the weekend in Las Vegas.

Former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov claimed he was treated rudely by a cabin crew member before he was escorted off an American airline flight. The incident, which occurred on a Frontier Airlines flight from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas to Los Angeles last Saturday,

In clips that surfaced on Sunday, Nurmagomedov, 36, was seen debating with airline staff while sitting in the exit row on the plane headed to California. An unidentified airline employee was seen telling the Russia-born mixed martial artist he either had to switch seats or get off the plane.