UFC fighter jumps into action to save his manager from drowning near a waterfall in Hawaii

A head to immoderate of nan UFC's biggest stars astir drowned while swimming successful Hawai'i earlier he was rescued by 1 of his clients successful a melodramatic segment that was caught connected tape.

'Ottman's a awesome kid,' head Ali Abdelaziz told TMZ of UFC combatant Ottman Azaitar. 'He has a large heart. He virtually saved my life.'

Tape of nan incident shows Abdelaziz struggling to enactment afloat while swimming pinch 2 men adjacent a waterfall successful a jungled area of nan 50th state. As he explained, Abdelaziz recovered himself successful an area that was deeper than expected.

Soon he felt himself opening to gaffe beneath nan aboveground of nan water.

That's erstwhile Azaitar sprung into action, grabbing a vine from a adjacent character and utilizing that to reel Abdelaziz to safety.

Next up for Abdelaziz is UFC 307 successful Salt Lake City, wherever different of his fighters, Kaya Harrison, is scheduled to beryllium connected nan card.

The Cairo autochthonal is simply a erstwhile MMA fighter, but came to head fighters aft connecting pinch legendary Renzo Gracie astatine nan Gracie family academy successful New York.

Now Abdelaziz manages a number of nan sport's apical names, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, Kamaru Usman, Justin Gaethje and Henry Cejudo.

A beardown protagonist of Donald Trump, Abdelaziz was antecedently imprisoned successful Colorado for forging documents, but was later recruited by nan NYPD to infiltrate a group called Muslims of America. According to nan book, 'Enemies Within: Inside nan NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America,' Abdelaziz besides worked for nan FBI until they began to fishy him of being a double agent.

The Bureau unsuccessfully attempted to deport Abdelaziz astatine 1 point, according to nan book.

Azaitar, connected nan different hand, appears to beryllium astatine a crossroads successful his career. Defeated successful consecutive bouts, nan German-Morrocan combatant has been retired of action since July of 2023. He was scheduled to conflict astatine UFC Fight Night 232 successful November of past year, but that bout was cancelled for immoderate logic that has not been disclosed.

Azaitar began his profession by winning his first 13 fights, including a brace of bouts successful 2019 and 2020 that earned him 'Performance of nan Night' honors.