The most violent rugby match ever broadcasted live

All Blacks vs South Africa
South africa vs all blacks
all blacks 2023
rugby world cup 2023
france vs south africa 2023
all blacks vs argentina rugby world cup
handre pollard
cheslin kolbe
will jordan
jordie barrett
Rugby world cup final
South africa final
France 2023
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[@Hammersteyn]

Today there would be seven hours of TMO 6 Red Cards and 11 Yellows for a game like this

[@KiwiPepega]

Only to SH teams. NH are pieces of crap, refs give them victory by way of being a toss pot.

[@mthabitX]

Exactly, it was a different era. The things that went unpunished by the refs enabled the outrages tackles and off the ball incidents which escalated due to no-calls.

[@TechnondiaPty]

[@ReafDraw]

Hahaha ain't that the truth !

[@fscott1756]

Yep, would've been 11 vs 13 by the end of the match!

[@samacw]

Every "most violent" match video is South Africa vs someone else.

[@nicdelange2900]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nicdelange2900]

They play to win

[@ljtheman7875]

No you don't have enough knowledge

[@nicdelange2900]

@ljtheman7875 send me ur no then ill send u the charge down video from the famous charge down.....

[@janicesmall4990]

We only got our 1st yellow card in the 2023 World Cup on Saturday. We won't fight unless we are defending ourselves😊

[@Matt_Alaric]

Fights are all good fun, but gouging another player on the floor is one of the dirtiest things a player can do, and Schalke should have seen red.

[@srodber915]

Imagine a Lions player had done that, the snowflake Saffa fans would have popped with outrage

[@Rob-jh5xj]

​@srodber915 LOL, only snowflakes here are you woke Europeans, best of 4 countries and you can't even win a series against a Bok team. Arrogant players the lot of the Lions players. Can't wait to see them get hammered by the Aussies in 2025.

[@EmmanuelTabernaclePower]

@@srodber915 The same way the snowflake roses (or is it white) cried after the Owen Farrel debacle. The tackle on JP Peterson with today's rules would have been a borderline red (at least a yellow). As a South African fan, I agree regarding the actions of Schalke - he was a lucky man to have still stayed on the pitch! If VAR was used then he surely would not have stayed on. But I salute that British team - they came to play and they fought fire with fire. Not many can stand up to South Africa when they come at you hard. Just ask the All Blacks after they have been brutalized by South Africa a couple of weeks back. Rugby is for real men, for the rest there is soccer....

[@rogerg.shannon3345]

@@srodber915 i stopped reading when you said snowflake. i don't read children's books....

[@johnglenn2539]

Dirty boer scum. Same old story

[@turangatohiariki3042]

Old school all black's said playing the springbok's was like a 80 minute's of fighting after the game felt like they just finished a fight 😂😂😂

[@bean691]

How the referee saw someone gouging someone’s eyes, and thought it was worthy of only a yellow, is beyond me. That aside though, this is one of my favourite rugby matches, and series. Back when rugby was rugby, before they took power and strength away from the game. There would be about 7 red cards if this game was played today.

[@nicdelange2900]

😂😂😂😂

[@nicdelange2900]

Watch again

[@ryanbotha5180]

It shouldn’t even have been a penalty!

[@sphereseal8341]

I mean I think its good rules have been adjusted to properly punish players for misconduct

[@RicksPhatPharm-vw2lb]

The English are so dramatic, Schalk was helping him with that plank in his eye.

[@Happychappy444]

A man cannot tarnish his whole legacy with one action: O'Gara: Hold my beer

[@jeffrey89095]

It wasnt actually his fault. If you watch the game there's 90 seconds on the clock so he can't kick it out. Lions don't track back either and the SA chase is great. So he has two options, last play if the game give SA the ball just inside your half for anlinout and hope you defend to win or he can up and under and go for the win looks to his left and sees the best fielding winger in the world and goes for it. Execution wasnt good but the decision is admirable. He was also very obviously concussed moments before this. It's often edited with other clips to make it look different than it actually was.

[@jazzflute2465]

Massive difference between hard and just plain dirty.

[@ljtheman7875]

Sa plays hard

[@RR-md9dz]

That’s why they commit so many fouls and see yellows? Should see a lot more than what they do too

[@ljtheman7875]

@@RR-md9dz oh you talking absolute bollocks

[@EmmanuelTabernaclePower]

What is amazing is when one is on the winning side, hard is just that, hard! But when you start to lose it sometimes becomes something else; suddenly it is dirty?!?!

[@tsaki_titan]

The reason you can't differentiate between bard and dirty is because we always play your weak team hard and you never beat us so your small frail ego gets hurt and you say it's dirty play.

[@bjnwright]

That opening segment is going to give me nightmares - imagine having Victor Mattfield just casually stalking you. Such a unit

[@vladtheinhaler8476]

And now it's his reincarnation Eben Etzebeth

[@knockschool]

Bakkies Botha made Mattfield look like a choir boy. ?

[@88ceaton]

Fourie's try one of the best ever for me. The sheer power he had was a symbol of SA rugby. England's envy over Springbok strength has given me much satisfaction over the years

[@spinynormanbest6410]

The state your country is in gives me much satisfaction also😏😏

[@88ceaton]

​@@spinynormanbest6410 sorry if I hit a nerve hahaha plenty of us emigrated to London I suppose you are happy we ploughing through all your women as well? LOL

[@spinynormanbest6410]

@@88ceaton They're not my women like bro

[@hunterluxton5976]

Cheating bastards not power.

[@BK-vz3mx]

​@@spinynormanbest6410ja because the state of your country seems a dreamy barge

[@Dan-lg4bs]

I’m English but I admire the Boks they come for nothing but an absolute battle every single time and we give it to them, all be it we usally lose but it’s always entertaining. Proper blokes play this game no doubt about that.

[@joesouthborn2960]

Not everyone understands. You understand. ;)

[@ryanhenry21]

What a game. Both sides are tough as nails

[@rsacitizen6151]

The most violent is the springboks vs the Irish in 1997 even Gary Tiechmann was involved in a brawl

[@zwakelemgabhi]

Bring tears to my eyes watching, the drama of sport cant be recreated anywhere

[@harrisonlumb9128]

He flapped it from O'Driscoll

[@13Badseed]

I was there! Tickets to this match was a birthday gift from my father. I remember watching Morne Steyn's kick traveling, it felt like an eternity, but when that North stand at Loftus started cheering even before we could see it sail through, the crowd erupted. One of my all time favourite memories.

[@The_Angry_BeEconomist]

beautiful memory, thankz for sharing

[@chrisk6820]

Oh the good old days when we still had people who can kick a ball

[@theyoungmessiah420]

😂🤣ek stem

[@joshuagericke243]

U must be English then hey🤣🤣

[@foreignwarren7361]

Bring back Naas 🤣

[@robertmarx7901]

Handre Pollard has entered the chat.

[@foreignwarren7361]

@@robertmarx7901 meneer ballas van staal 🤣

[@breconjordan]

The eye gouge should have been a permanent ban from playing rugby in any way. Disgusting behaviour and definitely should be punished more toughly!

[@theunshanekom2]

Hey Snowflake....Rugby was hard, played by guys who gave and recieve......don't be a doos!!

[@dyllanwilson7790]

What about that nut shot to bekker ?

[@cornedenecker1636]

Haha permanent ban? Must suck to know the whole of Britain and Ireland can't even beat the Springboks 😂😂😂.

[@patman142]

Ireland have won 3 out of the last 5 encounters but don't let facts get in the way@@cornedenecker1636

[@johnfrench4137]

I agree it was stupid and doesn't belong in the game. However, it was pretty commonplace in those days for that kind of thuggery. French leagues were the worst.

[@chrisBaxter-ly8or]

Weirdly enough the Saffers didn't want to bully Sheridan

[@mthunziphakathi4215]

They left everything to Beast in the scrum😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Robin-du8dh]

This is probably the 90th most violent rugby match posted recently 🙄

[@nyakwarObat]

😆😆

[@AllstarReagan]

By any standards, now or then, that eye gouging is a straight red.

[@peterjames777]

Morne Steyn is the GOAT

[@ljtheman7875]

Now we're talking!

[@trevorerasmus1605]

Danie Rossouw. LEGEND

[@TheOzzMars]

RWC '95, SA vs Canada. now that was the most violent game ever recorded.

[@lcloete5332]

Die slag van Boet Erasmus stadion. Hennie le Roux landed the best punch in rugby history that night.

[@schnozz87]

About 20 red cards in this game by today's standards 😂 glad i got to watch this series before the game started to deteriorate...

[@theofarmmanager267]

I’d always want the Lions to win or England to win. But I love the way that SA (usually) play the game. Tough and direct with great finishers. Yes, playing on the edge that way does result in unlawful acts with people like Corne Krige and Bakkies Botha seemingly preferring to play dirty rather than clean. I’ve just watched SA beat the AB at Twickenham and they used their power game to perfection. England certainly won’t win the 2023 World Cup but SA ought to be semi finalists at the very least.

[@OboteOjok]

and ur prediction is half true at this stage, SA in semis but to face England

[@theofarmmanager267]

@@OboteOjok I’m afraid that my prediction will turn out to be 100% true - I can’t see England beating SA (but then I said that about the semi in 2019 when we played the AB). I also predicted the 4 in the semis to be AB, Ireland, SA and France but not knowing the draw. So, I am only 50% right there. Surely the final will be SA versus the AB?

[@OboteOjok]

@@theofarmmanager267 SA vs AB will be a banger, the way the Qrtrs turned out any combination of 2 will be a banger in the finals. I loved the Qrtrs weekend, my neighbors (None Rugby) must have been wondering Ohh Btw England have an Axe to grind, that will be beautiful in Paris

[@theofarmmanager267]

@@OboteOjok and I always thought a banger was a sausage….SA v NZ will be brutal - in the rugby sense. The thirst for revenge for England is there but you must have the tools to get that revenge - and I don’t see England have those.

[@xDontStandInTheFirex]

Mate England just put their heart and soul into that match, but yes, you were right. well done RSA and well done England@@theofarmmanager267

[@alanjackson2712]

Had that game not had been in South Africa, Berger would have got 12 months. It's amazing how everyone who goes on about how good he was seems to have completely forgotten this incident. The guy was a thug in this match !!

[@EmmanuelTabernaclePower]

Berger yes, but not Burger....

[@Aidjay]

Was that a nut-punch at 2:32?

[@CC-om8ze]

The Springboks love the brutality. These new rules with TMOs and Red cards, pajama slumber rugby kit, have calmed them down a bit. World Cup 2023

[@jellslixcy6168]

Broadcast. I input it to the computer. The match was broadcast.

[@nardusvisser]

0:28 Matfield will drop O’Driscoll any day of the week, with some change to spare..

[@jandre78]

I wish he did!

[@okbutthenagain.9402]

Yet he never did. Funny how your unicorn wish is exactly that!

[@jandre78]

@@okbutthenagain.9402 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@richiemckeever6635]

Some achievement that and him twice the size..

[@Irish-Gael-sg4lv]

Well you're watching rugby not cage boxing or fighting.

[@christiansimmons630]

Watching Botha and Sheridan square up was great! I had them pleasure of meeting bakkies in Toulon (when him and Sheridan where teammates) and he was so nice and professional, so strange how much these guys change when the whistle blows

[@harryshawyer2093]

Best test match I've ever watched - it has absolutely everything. I'm looking forward to Ronan O'Gara gaining redemption when he coaches the Lions to a series victory in SA in 2033 ;)

[@goteddy3909]

Donkey O'Gara, most overrated player in his generation

[@rscoops3986]

I love this prediction. Even though we didn't win, this is the best match of any sport I've seen. A bombardment of pure intensity and aggression for 80 minutes.

[@nicdelange2900]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nicdelange2900]

In ur dreams pall

[@ru5tpR0of24]

LOL!

[@andrewbradley1753]

Be about 6 players left on thenpitch these days.

[@sheldinduplessis1424]

That bok team was massive! Even the wingers, Habana and JP were huge.

[@mryan4452]

HUGE, SA traditionally had big sides

[@Laurikiwi]

Habana defo was not huge

[@tristanfeinauer]

​@@Laurikiwimaybe not by rugby standards but he was quite big(muscle wise)

[@enochzantsi732]

I remember a day I went to watch the Sharks playing the Auckland Blues in Durban, and I was sitting quite low on the stands, close to the turf edges. JP Petersen was on my side of the field. I just couldn't believe how big this bloke was for an international winger. I kept getting distracted, trying to get my head around how this frame could reach the speeds of a Bok wing, because I had seen many international wings before, and they weren't like that. To boot, Joe Rokocoko was his opponent and looked just as big.

[@plutoniumnitrate1201]

pushing matfield is what really started this fight.....he stood there waiting for the response

[@UNCLE401]

Rugby games we miss

[@franko1174]

There wasn't one punch thrown 😂😂😂

[@user-gn6ux3ou7s]

England v Wales 1980 was far more violent in the first 10 minutes alone

[@MrLisaFischer]

Very good springbok side this. Habana, Fourie Du Preez, Bakkies, Rossouw, Matfield

[@mbucd]

Any match SA play is guaranteed to be dirty.

[@ljtheman7875]

This is what living in the past is

[@ir0ns1de5]

Epic Highlights. What a match💥

[@yourmamacrib]

Here we are. 4 World Cups, remember this match like yesterday. TMO would have a heart attack these days

[@anandgounden4376]

Lions can't come to Africa and think they're lions... they're born and bred here.

[@clintoruss153]

Thanks Ronan

[@Battrs]

When was this? 2009??

[@BatteryCommander]

How far offside was O'Driscoll for that headbutt, sorry 'tackle', on Danie Rossouw?

[@DC94359]

Perfect tackle

[@bravorojo87]

And yet no one talks about it… it’s like Roy keane - his legacy should be one of thuggery and pre-meditated wrecking of a man’s career. Somehow still on our screens every week

[@user-lq2dc9wj2n]

red card@@DC94359

[@tobolee6385]

​@DC94359 they missed the part where he went off 5min later ...tackle my ass . .hes lived off the lie for all these years

[@amanthea69]

Those were the days. But im glad that its tougher rules now. Same with icehockey for instance. I remember the 70's when it was almost lawless.

[@obaraabraham9934]

Brian O'driscoll was pure nails. He took out backrows on a good day.

[@lmeyer46ish]

Jesus both side tough as nails

[@dimieb]

Real men

[@user-mkru]

Any man taking on Bakkies like this must have a death wish....or he is very stupid.

[@michealocaoinlean6176]

What a sheer thug and cheat he was.

[@EmmanuelTabernaclePower]

@@michealocaoinlean6176 Tough man making that comment from your couch. Please speak to any ex-player who played against him - only the deepest of respect/ None of them will call him what you call him - none. What did they call him? Well, The enforcer!!!

[@Alltakenbla]

As a Saffa, what a hard on to watch the rest get wiped. Obviously the ABs are not part of the rest. Respect!

[@BurnedNerd]

was this rugby or UFC.... now Schalk "Cheese"Burger is a damn sports persona... 😂😂

[@ryanstephen120]

Yea he only won IRB player of the year multiple times and the Laureus World sports comeback of the year.

[@BurnedNerd]

@@ryanstephen120 that is good... also never said he was a bad player did I? He was also just a violent player.... who else pokes eyes on the field apart from him

[@reggawardle4874]

Brutal game played by gentlemen..pure body and soul sport..

[@gipsydavy1490]

That would be a normal game of amateur rugby league, regarding the aggression.

[@danasmith9415]

😂😂😂 1990s State of Origin; hold my beer

[@SipheSithole]

Could someone please explain to me why exactly Bakkies get cited for the clean-out on Adam Jones?

[@WalterWhite-sm2dr]

Dislocated his shoulder.. was physical .. Springbok team protested the following week by wearing a black armband saying J4… meaning Justice for number 4

[@MrNipsi]

I can remember Adam Jones saying that old bakkies Botha did nothing wrong shouldn't have been cited.

[@Karma-qt4ji]

Should not have been cited for that. Even by today's standards, the clean out was perfectly legitimate and just unfortunate that Jones got injured. Jones himself deserves a lot of respect for coming out and saying that it was a fair hit.

[@dtac_10_29]

Seems like it was just yesterday

[@chakalaka3960]

How on earth was that first bok try not converted 💀

[@kemuse1]

Everyone's a big man until Andrew Sheridan turns up

[@leigholivier8600]

Ah yes, I remember this game. So much violence and fun! 😂😂😂

[@joetitirahi591]

watch how sa go into rucks nd maulstaking players out ball mowhere near the opposition

[@mohsenhosseini2604]

Which year is this game ?

[@turkyish]

Some hit from Brian

[@shlomosuke]

Eye gouging or anything remotely aiming at the groin should be an instant red card and season ban. Rugby might be a violent sport, we arent animals.

[@guyreid8692]

Was this the 2009 lions tour to sa ?

[@nicdelange2900]

And thats the Sprinboks😂

[@groenrizla2513]

How much rugby has changed since those days. Didn't 5 Welsh players have to take a trip to hospital that day... Imagine these days, red card red card red card red card.

[@helenivanic1628]

How about the soccer match between Netherlands and Portugal at the FIFA World Cup 2006.? 16 Yellow and 4 red cards. Umpire stopping the match every minute or so.

[@OffGridLivingEspana]

go Bokke - old school rugby

[@1lionconqueror]

I've seen games of local kids touch rugby more violent than this

[@user-fu4nw1sh3n]

"The most violent rugby match ever broadcasted live" . . . . not even close!

[@springbok86]

BOD mouthing off at the beginning, ends the match sitting down with a head injury 😂😂

[@jakesindahouse]

Pretty sure BOD played on while the south african got carried off by a stretcher lol

[@springbok86]

@@jakesindahouse Heinrich Brussow came on straight away and helped turn the game around with his turnovers. BOD the idiot decided he could play on, was still dazed in the very next phase from the resulting scrum leaving a hole for Habana to run through under the posts. Then eventually decided he should come off, just before Jamie Roberts, so Lions play last 15 without a specialised centre. Fourie scores in the corner. OGara concedes a penalty. Game and series won. Camera cuts to dazed, face like a smacked arse BOD sitting on the sidelines. Yes, big round of applause for BOD the hard man 😂😂😭😭

[@jakesindahouse]

@@springbok86 whatever man. You decided to pick on BOD on of the greatest centres ever for "mouthing off" considering big tough Victor Mattfield couldnt pick on someone his own size so tried to go over and intimidate BOD. Different game back then. Could have been a drawn series if Rog didnt concede that stupid penalty. Id say he was in his right to mouth off to the bigger man trying to intimidate him. What did you want him to do? Bend over? Sadcase

[@springbok86]

@@jakesindahouse oh dear, a bigger man trying to intimidate him. 😂 bandwagon Lions supporter who didn’t even remember what happened in the match. World Cup brings all the fair weather NH fans out of the woodwork sadly

[@jakesindahouse]

@@springbok86 lol your the one who was rattled by BOD for mouthing off. A match that happened 14 years ago 😂😂 yeah shows how much you know mate. Only the hardcore rugny fans follow the lion. Most people dont give a fck. Its the 6 nations or world cup that actually brings out the "fair weather" fans. Anyways why are people not allowed to watch a great game of rugby? Give the sport more exposure? Can tell your a massive tosser 😂

[@amsith4678]

which country is the lions's team ?

[@mryan4452]

Britain and Ireland, joint team

[@The_Angry_BeEconomist]

amazing comments here, all of them brought a smile to my face

[@didierliango6402]

the testosterone level here is just insane

[@krlauf5307]

Brian O'DrisDrol

[@JB-wj7gn]

2009 lions series in SA. This game won the series for SA

[@OriginalPuro]

"Broadcasted" is not a word. Broadcast. The most violent ruby match ever broadcast live.* Come on, you're native English speakers, you know this.

[@djelalniyazi4090]

Eye gauging dirty can't

[@Ding_Bat]

I'm still waiting for the violence...

[@siyavuyambuli284]

3:23 Bus is full

[@Geoffdam123]

Wasn’t schalke in the wrong turn film ?

[@colojaure2438]

Date?????

[@InceyWincey]

I’m sure I’ve seen worse in 10 minutes than that full game.

[@DuccioDiPrima]

Was this the rematch for anglo-boer wars?

[@Shazibenga]

I truly enjoy the way Boks play this game. Physically strong team.

[@knockschool]

I'd say a lot of cheap shot's

[@knightswarm1]

The commentator is a clown! "The Loins have South Africa rattled " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i think not!

[@priyamaharaj9066]

As a South African I honestly prefer our current team

[@liamturner3159]

‘Most violent rugby match’ never seen saint Helen’s vs Wigan warriors

[@ru5tpR0of24]

...even combined, the best of the northern atmosphere are still second best to the springboks!

[@TinyFord1]

I remember this tour, there was one point where Pierre Spies literally held onto a guy with one hand. I think this was the game where Heinrich Brussow threw a guy from the ground into the ground. But also, Bakkies Botha in a match will always be violent

[@charles9487]

Mike Phillips is surely the only 9 in history that would have a go at Victor Matfield

[@tashurst1]

I reckon Terry Holmes would too-hardest scrum half I've seen. Peter Stringer probably would too (but then wisely run away.)

[@JohnRock14]

He was a boxer so has the right to be fearless tbh

[@pietervanniekerk4453]

Rammed the poms right up the ring !

[@lcloete5332]

Leke kwagga..😂

[@alanfoster4800]

That Fourie DuPreez try!!!

[@gekolizzard]

Whoever wrote the title must be a Weles supporter. 😂

[@markwilson1026]

Btw, the past tense of broadcast is broadcast. As for the sweeping generalisation in the title, it's just click bait.

[@tombartram7384]

Past tense of broadcast is broadcast. You're welcome.

[@curtisjohnston6649]

No one's seen the Newtown Vs Manly fight of the 70s 😂

[@WonderboyTwoThousand]

Jaques Fourie you beauty !!! One of the best tries you will ever see...

[@georgesullivan4473]

The boer war obviously hasn't been forgotten lol 😂

[@FishingwithLukee]

Mike Phillips loved SA