England’s Thomas faces Idi Amin’s grandson in Commonwealth boxing

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England’s super-heavyweight boxer Damar Thomas faces Aziz Abdul, grandson of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, in the Commonwealth Games boxing competition in Glasgow. Aziz Abdul embraces his family legacy amid a high-stakes contest for medal progression.

England super-heavyweight Damar Thomas must overcome the grandson of Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator and self-proclaimed “King of Scotland”, if he is to progress into the medal rounds of Commonwealth Games boxing competition in Glasgow on Wednesday. Aziz Abdul, known as ‘Ringo’, is not shy of his family connection to Amin, a brutal military dictator who seized power in 1971, killing up to 500,000 people and expelling Uganda’s entire Asian population before he was deposed and sent into exil