Jonah Lomu - BBC ExtraTime 2004

[@tyzxcj34]

To imagine that he played the way he did and with a fatal medical condition. Can only imagine how he would have played if he was 100% RIP Jonah Lomu thank you for the memories

[@sheldoncooper0]

He was only diagnosed in 1995, his kidney was not at end-stage in 1995. Someone with progressive chronic kidney disease won’t experience ANY symptoms and will function as a regular human being until over 90% of kidney function is gone.. That’s the main reason he was able to still play despite having a failing kidney. This is also the reason why most people only realise when it’s quite late, unlike Jonah or other professional athletes that have routine blood and urine tests in which creatinine and protein is easily analysed and can pickup these things.

[@Nuku2156]

A truly extraordinary man. Wonderfully humble, very well spoken. Sorely missed. R.I.P Jonah Tali Lomu

[@CStayNZ]

I started watching this but I got a bit emotional. I’ll watch it one day

[@danielsarn3823]

What an amazing man RIP Jonah.

[@rimaman8681]

jonah used to play for wesley college and used to play against our high school we never thought hed become a huge rugby star , he was 9 months older than me , at that stage i was 5'2 and 56 kg he was 6'5 120 kg lol they tried to say he was 6'3 and 94 kg pffffff they just hadnt measured him properly , me and a freind got a lunch pass to go into the town we walked past him and his brother john they had the white shirt black tie and black weslley lava lava on as i walked past him he was way up in the air no way he was only 6'3 and 94 kg, my freind with me was 5'11 and 100 kg he looked like a little fat kid compared to jonah jonah at that age was already representing new zealand in nz scoundary schools and under 16s etc, he was also a very good athelete , then he played 7s for our province counties then nz 7s then counties had him playing left wing we all thought what!!? hes a forward but we knew he was fast because of the stories going around about his athletics how he and his rugby rival david wood went head to head in running races etc david wood was a local rugby freak and all round sports person he could run the 100 in 10:56 and we herd jonah smoked him , i was playing in weight restricted teams and jonah was a first 15 legend , i actually moved from the forwards as a hooker onto the left wing before jonah for the first time in 1991 for the high school rugby trials , i got smoked and moved back to hooker for saturdays 4th grade red team until i went back to playing club rugby after leaving school and after a couple years off smoking cigarettes and drinking and working out wich i always did , i played under 19s and noticed i was bowling like 3-4 players over in a row i played hooker at the time my usual position since under 9s in 1986 , i decided ill move out to the left wing because i was now much faster and more powerful from lifting alot of weights but i was short and not so big like 5'5 81kg-84 kg 11'15 100 m i played wing for the rest of my rugby days at this stage jonah was playing left wing for counties , we played a similar style of game , i wasnt copying jonah we just thought the same bowl them over fend them off or step them and sprint away , i actually wanted to make it to the big time and play against him i saw him as the one stopping me from geting anywhere , it was impossible to become a winger for any decent team here at that time , i did enjoy a few bowl overs and big fends that had them flying thru the air onto their buts , it was just very hard position to play you hardly ever get the ball and if youre teams not so good you do alot of tackling and have to let a few tries in , you stand around positioning yourself all day then suddenly the ball bounces youre way and youve got to find away to turn it into a try some games you dont get the ball at all , but we saw jonah around alot in the counties province this was his home where it all began , i saw him a few times ,he is not the big hummble guy people think he is he still had a big element of gangsta in him, when youre on t.v youre a different person , jonah didnt speak like how he does when hes on the t.v that is his made up t.v persona

[@emosnow2336]

@@rimaman8681 I hear from people that knew him that he was very arrogant

[@thakrak]

Taking shit with a failing kidney and never even let anyone know, just in case it would be used as an excuse... This guy is a hero.

[@markrutherford6010]

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[@wiklow22]

I'm late to the Jonah Lomu camp. Just over the last year or so. Absolutely amazing player, man, mentor.... etc. There aren't enough positive things you can say about Jonah. My hope is one day to travel to NZ and enjoy an All Blacks match in person!!

[@rimaman8681]

lol, move here to south auckland pukekohe where he first played wing for counties and became great, i used to pay $5 to stand a few meters away from him as he charged down the feild bowling players over , i sent one of the match programs to my sister in england , it had a big picture of jonah lomu on the back and the cost of the program $1 and the cost of admition $5 she buzzed a few brit lomu fans with that

[@888berg]

A champion attitude from a true champion of his realm - the Michael Jordan of rugby - an athlete of purest form. As much as he scared the rest of the world as being unstoppable - he will be sorely missed. Put rugby on the world stage. RIP

[@johnjones9750]

What a beautiful person. It was a privilege to watch you play , especially when you plowed through the Eng team, double pleasure for me because Im Welsh. R.I.P x

[@sunnysamuel7984]

Incredible communicator jonah was Such a lovely person aswell,impressive on and off the field,R.I.L Jonah🖤

[@jamescrawford9643]

I'm full of endless love an respect for this man amongst men. C U Jonah on the Rugby Pitch in the SKY! RIP🕊️

[@hangpiaulim9760]

Missed you so much Jonah Lomu God bless you

[@erniescullion8452]

jonah lomu was lovely lovely man.Ive no shame or shyness when i say It brings tears to my eyes to see his funeral and see him in action .A TRUE ICON & truly amazing.

[@daniaalali4658]

He was soo sweet man

[@mukundutm]

RIP JONAH TALI LOMU,NZ Giant Winger&Rugby Legend.The big fella indeed transformed the fortunes of rugby.

[@frankolwenda5128]

RIP. He was such a humble man

[@samjohnson1089]

Fair play to the legend that is Jonah Lomu. He answered these questions very well, regardless of the sometimes personal and home-hitting questions he clearly didn’t want to answer.

[@kdkd693]

Wonderful interview. Tough questions answered eloquently

[@risawild8289]

what a fantastic and honest interview.

[@bomberT1]

He was only 29 at the time of this interview.

[@januschau]

the best player of all time

[@nadhussain6503]

Can you imagine if he was illness free and 100% fit, he was diagnosed in 93 yet set the rugby World Cup alight in 95 and was the star of the tournament.. considering he was probably only 75/80% .. but still nobody could stop him, one can only imagine what he would’ve been like at 100% fit and illness free.. He moved with such speed and grace yet hit like a juggernaut , his agility, side step, speed and acceleration from standing start from a man of his size 6”5 270lbs is quite amazing and remarkable!! He was bigger than most of the forwards yet played on the wing.. amazing athlete for guy of that size, I don’t think rugby will ever see another Jonah lomu again.. just like boxing will never see another Tyson Ali etc.. once in a lifetime type of athlete..

[@sheldoncooper0]

He was only diagnosed in 1993, his kidney was not at end-stage in 1993. Someone with progressive chronic kidney disease won’t experience ANY symptoms and will function as a regular human being until over 90% of kidney function is gone.. That’s the main reason he was able to still play despite having a failing kidney.

[@JohnLo]

Great Person. He is a Fantastic gentleman of a person.

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

Amazing man on and off the pitch❤️

[@daniaalali4658]

Greatest Rugby player of all time

[@sammacculloch446]

A much loved kiwi, a humble tongan and a mighty human being. RIP big fella

[@tonygoodwin2834]

Greatest of all time in every sense

[@mosesfakatou7943]

He might not have won as much as he did, but I truly believe this was the closest thing we had to Michael Jordan for rugby. He was a global star, he brought the game of rugby to a different platform than what it was in 1995, and at his best he was unplayable. Simple, he could not be stopped, he was a joy to watch but a nightmare to play against. RIP to the one and only legend

[@ljawgtn1393]

Jonah Lomu, A legend and no one more entitled to the name

[@shaunryan6]

Heartbreaking!

[@spencerhowell7917]

Great man 👍 💪 great player . RIP

[@deeznutz2162]

south Auckland superstar

[@adamwithey4746]

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[@DJcromestyle]

Legend

[@SuperTerminator50]

Lovely Man, Best Rugby player ever?, Tragic how his career and life ended...Great interview...

[@julianalderson6996]

Jonah. Just the bezt honest guy out there love m.

[@kuryuz1]

your a legend Jonah, and grant kereama shot Bros

[@mojee685]

Lucky enough to have met in Tawa Wellington

[@johnjones-ri2lb]

What a GREAT man struck down by tragedy

[@rimaman8681]

13:21 i was at the auckland hostpital waiting in a black and white van for my uncle and his ex wife then i noticed a big flash black suv pull up across the way and the back came down automatically and a dude in orange got out and a lady and they pushed a dude in a wheel chair into the hostpital , then a few minutes later the dude in organe was walking past in front of the van he was a big brown tall guy with a bald head and wearing an orange leather suit i thought lol this dude thinks hes jonah lomu or somthing and i looked again and it was him now he was walking past the left window of the van and all i could think to say was Lomu! he turned and gave me that look that look like he had just finished the haka or just got a try

[@toakasi6425]

RIP ♥

[@paulsmart2915]

Love you Jonah

[@bananaminge]

What an amazing man Jonah is but what a terribly patronising interviewer.

[@rimaman8681]

4:53 no one could tackle jonah but the rug got him

[@rimaman8681]

ok lets get strait about this jonah lomu was 6'5 118 kg when he first made the all blacks aged 19 , in time he grew thicker and weighed 134 kg laurie mains all black coach in a video said to be polite to jonah we kept his profile weight at 118 kg , hence why he was always 118 kg , at one stage when he was on treatment he was 29 stone,

[@nospyingundercover6104]

absolute legend! very bloody strange that I visited his grave site well over 15 months and no headstone , what a disgrace,

[@gsagar2784]

RIP Champ!

[@cuevable]

❤️

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@rimaman8681]

19:47 in south auckland where i spent 42 years theres dangerous gangs everywhere maori gangs , pacific island gangstas etc , and when you play rugby in south auckland every team is loaded with huge samoans and tongans and maoris with a handful of tough clever white boys, every gangsta that wants to just hurt somebody will be in the teams i played rugby here from 1986 til 1998 , the lower level rugby in South auckland is the hardest rugby youll ever play, the terrible feilds the terrible refferees the suporters of the other team are the touch judges and every team is full of yokozuna's haku's umagas, jonah lomu's , barbarians david tuas etc, i took it to them i smashed them and they smashed me , they respected me because i delt out the punishment back to them , usually they are the only one dishing out punishment, in a few games their supporters were getting into me out on the wing and by the second half they were cheering for me just because i bowled players over and fended them onto the buts and took their big tackles they just want to see people get hurt so they can laugh lol

[@ellenmarysmithfa7324]

My cousin was the best xD

[@daniaalali4658]

Was jonah your cousin

[@bomberT1]

I can confirm she is not

[@Pack-ManT-B-Told]

❤ U

[@kelisianoedwards]

💖🙏🏾☝🏾

[@julianalderson6996]

Gota say that guys an evil hedgehog.

[@rimaman8681]

8:56 lol little did they know the great jonah lomu was watching their normal asses walking to the game , lol , i used to ride my push bike to the big rugby games and lock it up at my gym a 100 m from the stadium after drnking for about a hour and a half and id have my alcohol tucked away on me and a couple of cans of coke id go into the porto loos and pour some of the strong rum into the can of coke and id have a puff on some weed and come out of the loo like a reborn rugby fan ready to watch counties try not to lose

[@harerama719]

Hare Krishna ❤️

[@diggydodges3826]

I would of SMASHED JONAH LOMU on the Rugby Field. if i had a TANK, BULLDOZER OR ANOTHER JONAH LOMU.

[@daddemack88r13]

You and every cyber sideline player says that.

[@rimaman8681]

13:02 ahh his dad also beat him too , same as me , i was forced to eat a big adults size plate of vegetables , beans, brocoli,cauliflour, carrot, leaks, parsnips, etc at age 3-10 id get slamned on the ear for eating the meat first and not wanting to eat the many vegetables my father would scream eat them or ill shove them down youre throat wich he did, my older sisters would cry when he slapped my ears and theyd say leave him alone then theyd get slapped too, we had a hard up bringing my father was a heavy drinker and voilent woman beater and racist against brown skinned people he wanted a son first but got 4 daughters before he had me and i was going to be a rugby player before i was born , but i had his small frame short hard and stocky , its pretty much impossible to be an all black , all the freaks in youre town become the senior A rugby team all the freaks in that competition become the players selected for counties all the freaks at that level can be selected for the all blacks , very hard to get anywhere expecialy when that decision is some one elses

[@sheldoncooper0]

Hey Lennox Lewis here. I was always big, 6’5” and even then success did not come easy. I lost to Tyrell in the 84 Olympics and had to try again in 88 before beating Riddick to get the gold medal.

[@rimaman8681]

10:25 why didnt he tell them? i think its obvious he feared that hed be dropped again from the all blacks

[@daniaalali4658]

Jonah the greatest Rugby player of all time. He put Rugby on the map

[@oshliver2500]

Si'i fk'ofa....'Ofa atu toko2