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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Glasgow: It took less than 10 minutes for one of the most highly anticipated boxing matches on the Commonwealth Games schedule to descend into chaos.<\/p>\n On Thursday morning (AEST), a large crowd flocked to the SEC Centre to watch Uganda\u2019s Aziz Abdul take on Englishman Damar Thomas in a super heavyweight bout.<\/p>\n Abdul is the grandson of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who once proclaimed himself \u201cthe king of Scotland\u201d and had a fixation with the country.<\/p>\n Amin, a former heavyweight boxer, ruled Uganda for eight years. Human rights groups say as many as 500,000 people were killed and the country\u2019s Asian population expelled during that time, and he also presided over the country\u2019s economic collapse. He was forced out in 1979 and was never tried for his crimes in an international court. He died in Saudi Arabia in 2003.<\/p>\n Abdul had courted media attention earlier this week by saying, \u201cMy grandfather\u2019s achievements inspired me,\u201d and saying he wanted to become the \u201cbaddest man in the Commonwealth, the baddest man in Glasgow and the new king of Scotland\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n However, Abdul\u2019s ambition to take Commonwealth gold was short-lived. He was disqualified in his match against Thomas during the third round for headbutting his opponent. His disqualification and the referee\u2019s decision prompted a lashing of boos and jeers from his supporters in the crowd.<\/p>\n Abdul was furious when speaking to media after the aborted fight, beginning the media conference by pointing at a journalist in the scrum.<\/p>\n \u201cYou I don\u2019t like,\u201d he said pointing at the reporter, shaking his head. He then spoke to a member of the Ugandan team, going back and forth before taking questions from journalists.<\/p>\n \u201cThat decision is not correct,\u201d he said when asked for his reaction to the disqualification. \u201cThat decision was on one side.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll I can say about this … I\u2019m not happy about the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n Abdul then referred to his opponent by the n-word, adding, \u201cI will get him next time \u2026 anywhere in the future I\u2019ll get him \u2026 if not now, anytime in the future, after five years or two years or 10 years … I will show him that Aziz Ringo is a real warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked to expand on why the disqualification for headbutting was unfair, Abdul said it had not been intentional and his opponent had elbowed him, among other infractions, multiple times throughout the fight. He said it was a trend among English fighters.<\/p>\n Related Article He said his English opponent was given favour because he was on \u201chome\u201d soil and said he had landed heavy punches on Thomas that did not count.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead of counting, they deduct my points, they warn me,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a black African, OK … I know, he\u2019s in his homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n He questioned why the officials were \u201cscared about this fight\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t they let the fight continue,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat was wrong in the fight?\u201d<\/p>\n Specifically asked if he was saying the judges had wanted Thomas to win, Abdul said \u201cyes\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know [why]. Because he\u2019s at home, he\u2019s at f—ing home man.\u201d<\/p>\n Abdul ended the interview by saying \u201cit was God\u2019s plan\u201d and repeatedly wishing his opponent luck for the next match.<\/p>\n Thomas chose his words very carefully in the media zone after the fight, with his minder telling journalists to \u201ckeep it about the boxing\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLike I said, I got the job done \u2026 the job is done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Asked by this masthead what he had expected of the fight with Abdul, Thomas said: \u201cLiterally that. I didn\u2019t expect anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thomas added that he didn\u2019t want the fight \u201cto end like that\u201d and it \u201cwas not how he wanted it to go\u201d.<\/p>\n Get around our Commonwealth Games coverage<\/p>\n Follow our coverage of the Commonwealth Games with live blogs covering every moment of the action from 6pm AEST daily.<\/p>\n News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport are sent every Monday. Sign up for our Sport newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Aziz](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6ea730ca4df5ed9031ed6b0b4f46ac895a362eea.jpeg\")
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