October 25, 2026
Ugandan boxer Aziz Abdul, grandson of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, was stripped of his medal at the African Boxing Championship in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after he punched his Egyptian competitor Mohamed Hussein after the final whistle of the 90-kg final fight.
The boxer nicknamed “Ringo” (25 years old) lost his nerve immediately after the match ended. He retreated the moment he heard the bell, then returned to punch the back of Hussein’s head while the latter was turning away from him, which led to him falling to the ground. Immediately, the referees intervened and decided to exclude Abdel, who left the ring before the official announcement of his Egyptian competitor’s victory. The punishment was not only limited to stripping him of the gold medal, but he was also deprived of the silver medal allocated to the second-place finisher.
This is not the first incident of its kind, as the boxer faced the same fate a few months ago at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last July, when he was excluded from the super-heavyweight quarter-finals against the Englishman Delicious Urie, after receiving two warnings and a third violation in which the referees considered that he had struck a blow to the head. The British newspaper “The Sun” reported his attack on the arbitration following that exclusion, accusing the referees of bias and racism. It is noteworthy that Abdel had arrived in Scotland declaring his desire to become “the new King of Scotland,” thus removing one of the famous titles that his grandfather had given himself.
It is noteworthy that Idi Amin seized power in Uganda in 1971 and ruled for eight years, characterized by widespread violations and mass killings in which hundreds of thousands were killed, before he was overthrown and fled into exile.
