Headbutts boxer to get disqualified
Success stories and tales of hardship are part of sport. The most extraordinary story at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games involved neither. Instead, it involved a headbutt, an angry tirade and a surname that still divides a nation. In the quarterfinal of men’s 90+ kg boxing, Ugandan boxer Aziz Abdul was disqualified for headbutting his opponent, England’s Damar Thomas. As if Zinedine Zidane had descended at the SEC Centre. Then came the outburst. “I’m a black African, I know. It’s God’s plan,” Aziz declared. Then alleged, “There was a lot of b******t. Holding, elbowing. When other countries do this, they are disqualified. They decided the winner before the fight.” When a Press Association reporter attempted a question, Aziz cut him off. “Not you. I don’t like you.” His explanation was startling: the journalist had written unfavourably about his grandfather. The report in question stated his grandfather had killed half a million people. The grandfather being Idi Amin: A former Ugandan dictator in the 1970s. 🏴England’s Damar Thomas gets his Commonwealth Games campaign underway with a DQ …









