UFC fighter Dennis Buzukja is in sizzling water with the Nevada Athletic Fee stemming from an altercation between him and a crowd member at an occasion in December.
Throughout a month-to-month fee listening to Tuesday in Las Vegas, Buzukja (12-5 MMA, 1-3 UFC) was briefly suspended for hanging a crowd member on his means again to the locker room after cornering teammate Aljamain Sterling at UFC 310.
A choice on the matter will likely be tabled for a future fee assembly with phrases of decision decided within the meantime.
Buzukja and teammate Merab Dvalishvili have been each restrained in the course of the altercation. The group member, Arman Tugaev, was later recognized to be somebody with connections to the Nurmagomedovs, who rivaled Dvalishvili forward of their Jan. 11 title combat. Dvalishvili indicated Tugaev intentionally provoked the altercation and grabbed his arm earlier than Buzukja threw punches.
Days after the incident, Buzukja additionally commented on the altercation.
“I don’t know if he had touched Merab as we have been strolling in, however one way or the other he received Merab’s consideration after which Merab went and tapped his shoulder and simply gave him the finger, after which the man gave him the finger again or no matter,” Buzujka stated on “The Weekly Scraps” podcast with Sterling. “He received all jumpy.
“Then because the combat completed and we’re strolling again on the opposite aspect, this f*cking man comes throughout the entire crowd after which goes and, you’ve seen the video, he grabs Merab’s arm after which says one thing to him in, I assume Russian or no matter, and Merab began going loopy. Then we received into somewhat bodily altercation, however that was actually it. So hopefully no costs pressed and we transfer on.”
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