Under natten ägde supergalan UFC 229 rum som bjöd på ett flertal riktigt bra matcher. Galan avrundades dock med att ett stort bråk utbröt mellan personer från lättviktsmästaren Khabib Nurmagomedovs hörna och personer från Conor McGregors hörna. Timmar efter galan har tre av personer från Nurmagomedovs hörna har blivit arresterade.
Dana White on Khabib's team members who attacked McGregor: "The three of his guys have been arrested and are being taken to jail right now." #UFC219
— Wade Keller (@thewadekeller) October 7, 2018
Khabib team member getting arrested after the fight #ufc229 #khabib #conor pic.twitter.com/GPhuBnV5Wu
— Terez Owens (@TerezOwens) October 7, 2018
Två av personerna som deltog i bråket misstänks vara UFC fighterna Zubaira Tukhugov och Islam Makhachev. Enligt UFCs VD, Dana White, kommer varken Tukhugov eller Makhachev att få gå fler matcher för UFC, vilket han nämnde under presskonferensen efter galan.
The guys who jumped in will never fight here. They’ll never fight here. I’ve been working hard for 18 years to build this sport. When you have such an amazing event that we’ve worked hard to build over the last several months and it goes perfect, I mean literally it was too eerie. I kept saying this is too crazy man. Everybody made weight, everything was so smooth. Security took all the right precautions. Those of you that have been to many events, you’ve never seen this many metro police officers in the building. Security was unbelievable.
White berättade även att samtliga tre männen som arresterades har släppts då McGregor har valt att inte väcka åtal.
They were released because Conor didn’t want to press charges. We’ll see how this thing plays out. I’ve been doing this for 18 years, and I couldn’t be more disappointed. I’m not even mad. I’m just really disappointed.
Nurmagomedov och McGregor möttes i huvudmatchen på UFC 229 där Nurmagomedov stod som segrare via submission i 4:e ronden.
