The Observer (Kampala)
12 November 2008
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Kampala — Newly-crowned National Boxing Champion, the self-styled "Super Mister" Mamama Mamazi, has issued a stern warning to would-be challengers that he will tear them to threads the way cabinet, in a manner of speaking, tore the Parliamentary report against Security "Super Minister" Amama Mbabazi.
Speaking after knocking out three heavy-weight boxers - Maj Gen. Kopper Rivets, Maj Gen. Jimmy Stanbike and Hajji Hides Landgrabber - in the Temangalo National Boxing Ring, Super Mister Mamama Mamazi declared that no Ugandan can knock him off the number one spot in the country's boxing queue.
"I have been hearing amateur boxers, especially those on Parliament Avenue, making noise that they will bring me down. Well, I have news for them. I will send them tumbling down like those tons of bricks at the new Workers' House building that collapsed recently," he threatened.
His personal coach, Gen. Yahweh Mbaguta, affirmed that no one can touch "his" boxer. "If you as much as point a finger at my man, you will go down so fast that you won't know what hit you. He is not called Super Mister for nothing."
People who gathered around the Temangalo National Boxing Ring to watch the highly-billed championship fight were left disappointed after Mamama Mamazi knocked out all his opponents in under a minute.
"This is not fair. We paid Shs 24,000 per seat to watch the fight and what did we get? Less than a minute of boxing!" one spectator told The Analyst, alleging that Gen. Mbaguta and Super Mister Mamama Mamazi rigged the fight.
"They intimidated the referee who just watched as Mamazi rained illegal under-the-belt blows on his opponents. It's like they took Idi Amin's advice that to win a boxing match, you should knock out the referee!" complained one spectator soon after the "Rumble in the Swamp" which is said to have garnered a whopping Shs 11 billion.
However, Super Mister's coach, Gen. Mbaguta, dismissed the allegations as nothing but a "womanifestation" of jealousy.
"Take it from a man who has won many battles in his life; my Super Mister won the championship fire and scare," he said.
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