The grandson of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has made a stunning exit from the Commonwealth Games, headbutting his English boxing opponent before ranting about the disqualification decision.<\/p>\n
The aftermath was as wild as the ugly 90-plus kg quarter-final, which featured two warnings against Aziz Abdul before the referee ended the bout against Damar Thomas with more than a minute left in the third round.<\/p>\n
Abdul raged against his opponent afterwards, accused the judges of bias and implied racism in an expletive-laden interview.<\/p>\n
He had ensured plenty of attention for his bout on Thursday morning (NZST), declaring he wanted to be the new ‘King of Scotland’ in a nod to his notorious late grandfather.<\/p>\n
“All I can say about this is the decision is not right. I’m not happy about the decision,” the Ugandan said.<\/p>\n
“Next time I will get him … anywhere, in the future, I will get him.”<\/p>\n
Abdul was then asked again what he thought about his disqualification.<\/p>\n
“Yes, of course it’s unfair. When you watch the previous fights of England, their boxers, they get a lot of fouls,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They play a lot of ‘bull****’, but they cannot judge them wrong … I’m a black African, OK?<\/p>\n
“I don’t know why the officials are scared about this fight. Why couldn’t they let the fight continue? What was wrong in the fight?”<\/p>\n
Abdul added the headbutt was unintentional and he felt there was only one way he could win.<\/p>\n
“He was the winner before – I just knew if I wouldn’t get a knockout I could not win that fight,” he said.<\/p>\n
Asked why, he replied: “I don’t know, because he’s at home – he’s at ‘f******’ home, man. Yeah.<\/p>\n
“I wish him good luck for his next fight.”<\/p>\n
‘King of Scotland’<\/p>\n
Abdul’s grandfather was the despot Amin, who seized power in 1971 then killed an estimated half-a-million people while ordering the expulsion of Uganda’s entire Asian population.<\/p>\n
Amin, the eccentric self-styled “King of Scotland”, fathered an estimated 60 children while harbouring a fascination with the country that is currently hosting the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Abdul never met his grandfather.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t want to end like that, but I’ve got to go on Friday again and that’s the main thing. Everything else is out of my control,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t expect anything else.”<\/p>\n
It was the last bout of day six, when Australia secured two more medals.<\/p>\n
Lekeisha Pergoliti had a contentious 3-2 win over Nigerian Blessing Orakwe in their 70kg quarter-final. Orakwe refused to shake the Australian’s hand when the result was announced.<\/p>\n
But Paul Trainor was hugging Welsh opponent Daniel Pitt amid much mutual respect. Trainor beat Pitt 4-1 in their 80kg bout.<\/p>\n
Of the eight Australians fighting in Glasgow \u2013 all first-timers at the Commonwealth Games \u2013 six were now in the semi-finals and guaranteed of medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grandson of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has made a stunning exit from the Commonwealth Games, headbutting his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190,2023,166477,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-550763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-boxing","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}