Johnny Walker kicked out of arena following UFC 279 win, left to walk Vegas barefoot

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Conor McGregor coach John Kavanagh claims UFC threw Johnny Walker out of the arena at UFC 279 with no shoes on and still in his fighting gloves after winning first fight on the main card... but Dana White says he doesn't know what happened

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Johnny Walker beat Ion Cutelaba with a first round submission at UFC 279

But he was apparently ushered out of the fight venue almost immediately

A tweet from trainer John Kavanagh said Walker didn't even have shoes on

Video showed the fighter still wearing his gloves as he arrived back at the hotel

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Kavanagh tweeted: 'So @ufc just came and kicked us out. No tickets for us and not allowed stay back stage to watch. Pulled out back door, kicked out, not even shoes on.'

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The head of SBG in Dublin, Ireland went on to post a video in Vegas and further detailed the incident.

'So here we are back at the hotel. Johnny still doesn't have any shoes on. Didn't get a chance to get changed.'

Walker chimed in: 'They kicked me back to the hotel like 'You win the fight, go back to the hotel motherf*****. I didn't take my gloves off!'

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In a reply, Kavanagh would reveal that they were told the ejection was for 'security reasons'.

Dana White was asked about it in the post-show press conference and he said: 'I guess since Covid they do this thing where they get fighters right out of here.

'I don't know why that happened. We're not throwing Johnny Walker out on the street shoeless, I'm sure. We threw him right out on the f***ing streets, huh? It's rough around here! I dunno.'

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