Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt has posted offended movies to social media claiming he and his two-year-old son had been kicked off a Southwest Airways flight due to a facemask difficulty involving the teenager.
Garbrandt shared two clips on Instagram on Thursday exhibiting the incident, within the first of which the fighter accuses a flight attendant of hiding within the airplane lavatory as a row over the facemask unfolds.
“Are you going to cover in there?” Garbrandt is heard saying, earlier than repeating “two years previous, two years previous” as he’s requested to show his telephone off.
“F*ck @southwestair received kicked off as a result of my 2 12 months previous son wouldn’t put his masks over his face. This coward flight attendant hid his b*tch ** within the lavatory,” the livid fighter wrote alongside the clip.
In a second quick clip, which appeared to point out Garbrandt being ushered off the aircraft, he filmed the cockpit the place the 2 captains had been seen with out masks.
“Kicking a two-year-old off a aircraft experience however your captains aren’t carrying their masks, whereas all of us are full capability sharing the identical air! What a joke,” the fighter wrote, tagging the airline.
Commenting by means of a spokesperson to US outlet MMA Junkie, the airline outlined its guidelines on journey throughout the pandemic, stating: “We remorse this household skilled any inconvenience throughout their journey.
“Nevertheless, federal legislation requires Southwest to make sure each particular person age 2 and over to put on a masks always all through a flight, together with throughout boarding and deplaning.
“On this state of affairs, the purchasers opted to not fly on Southwest, they usually had been supplied a full refund of their tickets.”
On his Instagram tales, Garbrandt later shared image of his son asleep at the back of a automotive, with the caption: “Poor child simply wished to go see his household.”
‘No Love’ Garbrandt contracted Covid-19 in October of final 12 months, and later detailed the lingering results he had suffered from the virus.
The 29-year-old had focused a showdown with reigning flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo for later this 12 months, though that prospect stays up within the air.
The competition had initially been scheduled for UFC 255 on November 21 in Las Vegas earlier than Garbrandt was compelled to drag out.
The Ohio native boasts a 12-Three professional file, and returned to successful methods in opposition to Raphael Assuncao in his final bout in June, which reversed a three-fight dropping streak.
