FORMER apical MMA exec praises combatant with 'big heart' for waterfall rescue
- Ian Tuckey, Digital athletics journalist
- Published: 22:59, 2 Oct 2024
- Updated: 23:00, 2 Oct 2024
A UFC prima has saved his manager from drowning successful a jungle.
Ottman Azaitar rescued Ali Abdelaziz after helium went nether the aboveground conscionable yards from a Hawaiian waterfall.
Egyptian MMA exec Abdelaziz was floundering arsenic helium swam with 2 men.
The water, surrounded by forest, was deeper than helium had expected.
But as Abdelaziz began to gaffe below, Azaitar intervened.
The German-Moroccan fighter, 34, snatched a vine from a histrion and utilized it to reel Abdelaziz to the side.
The 46-year-old, who had 4 MMA bouts himself earlier retiring, hailed the leader whose vocation helium is monitoring.
Abdelaziz told TMZ: "Ottman's a large kid. He has a large heart. He virtually saved my life."
However, the unthinkable incidental comes with Azaitar's future successful the octagon uncertain.
The lightweight has mislaid his past 2 fights and been retired of enactment for 15 months.
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A comeback was scheduled for UFC Fight Night 232 past November, but was called disconnected without nationalist explanation.
Meanwhile, Abdelaziz has a colourful reputation, but is present focused connected managing.
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He founded Dominance MMA Management and was enforcement vice president and matchmaker for the World Series of Fighting promotion.