Idi Amin's grandson responds after 'Glasgow Kiss' ends in Commonwealth Games disqualification
A historically murky athlete named Aziz Abdul is causing all the wrong headlines at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
This 25-year-old Ugandan native is in fact the grandson of twisted dictator Idi Amin, who served as the East African country's president for eight years until 1979.
After ascending the political ladder, Amnesty International estimates that somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 people (including ethnic groups, journalists, judges, lawyers, criminals and students) were killed under Amin's watch before he was exiled.
He lived out the rest of his days in Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, ultimately dying from kidney failure in 2003.
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Skip to this week and his relative, Abdul, has been disqualified from competing any further in the Commonwealth boxing ring after head-butting opponent Damar Thomas in the third-round of their super-heavyweight clash.
Per The Guardian, the burgeoning pugilist couldn't believe the referee's choice to wave off the match.
"There were a lot of fouls. Holding, elbowing, a lot of bull****," said Abdul afterwards.
"The officials cannot judge them. When other countries do this they are disqualified. All I can say about this is the referee's decision is not right and I am not happy.
"[Thomas] got me with the elbow," his complaint continued. "It was not intentional because I was trying to come back. How can I head-butt someone? I would not head-butt someone.
"When I was still in Uganda, I said I must win by knockout. It's an away match for me here. Next time I must end the fight in the first minute. Next time, I will get him. Anytime in the future. Two years, five years, 10 years. I will show him that Aziz Ringo is a real warrior. It's so painful."
At the time of this head-butt (ironically nicknamed a 'Glasgow Kiss') incident, Thomas was 20-16 up on the judges' scorecards.
The winner of the fight, who hails from England, later commented: "I got the job done, not how I wanted to, but the job is done.
"He was running at me with his head. There was a bit of ring rust from me but it is what it is."
Meanwhile, Amin's blood-stained regime was adapted by Hollywood in a 2006 drama titled The Last King of Scotland.
Starring Forrest Whittaker, who'd go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor as the Ugandan president, director Kevin Macdonald's film angles his dictatorship through the perspective of Dr Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy).
Dan Seddon