Professional rugby players are, by their nature, very large human beings, but hang around them long enough and you slowly grow accustomed to their extraordinary dimensions. Yet every so often a ...

He stands at 6ft 7in tall and tips the scales at a monster 145kg. That weight makes him the joint-heaviest player ever in English rugby, level with Exeter's Ehren Painter and Josh Iosefa-Scott. The ...

IT’S tough to look like an absolute unit on a rugby pitch full of them. But South African giant JJ van der Mescht towers above the vast majority of his Northampton Saints team-mates – and tips the ...

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Tonga skipper Ben Tameifuna is the heaviest top level rugby player on the planet, and he's just wowed one million people in less than 24 hours. The big prop is currently leading his side in the ...

Following the confirmation that Eben Etzebeth has been banned for 12 matches, we review previous eye-gouging bans and see how ...

I eat one meal a day and am English rugby’s heaviest player JJ van der Mescht is officially listed at 145kg but the Northampton lock once weighed the equivalent of a motorcycle while playing in France ...

Premiership Rugby giant is fuelled by a surprisingly modest diet IT’S tough to look like an absolute unit on a rugby pitch full of them. But South African giant JJ van der Mescht towers above the vast ...