Trevor Leota played his best rugby for London Wasps, playing with premiership club between 1997 and 2005. The Samoan hooker earned the title of one of the most dominant tacklers in the game. #rugbytackle #rugbyhit #bigrugbyhit
Everyone seems to forget the time period - I miss this level of tenacity in rugby, it's a far cleaner game now but I miss the punch ups and ruthless tackling technique's.
Helped look after Wasps back in the day - my god this man drank. Pints of bacardi topped with dash of coke - for "taste" Great guy, funny guy, complete headcase with a heart of gold
Definitely the hardest hitter ever in Rugby. Was lucky enough to watch many of his club rugby in West Auckland before he made a name for himself. He was something else. Growing up in Sth Auckland being a big hitter isn’t anything as most hit hard....but Trevor was on a different level. He went in for the kill every time. Blah blah blah people saying illegal hit. Illegal or not, he was like a Rhino charging. Just brute mass! You felt the hit by just watching.
This man is one of the pioneers who paved the way for pacific island ruggers; showing them what needed to be done on the field in order to progress or first of all be noticed into selection. And once in, you are on your own, so to speak. However, the previous generation of ruggers have now taken the role of big bro in nurturing and advising the younger ones on how to make it in the big leagues and not get spat out with nothing to show for it. Congratulations on a lustrous career and thank you for helping the younger ones to progress further than yourself.
I doubt that what you just said If that really happened that would crack your skull open you would die, have Internal bleeding and stuff this guy might have hit hard but not how you describe It lol.
SAMOAN BEASTMODE, USO'S CLUB....T.Leota, Tuilagi brothers, J.Collins, B.Lima,L.Mulipola, S.B.W, M.Nonu, S.Mapusua, T.Vaega, A.Perelini... List goes on n on n on n on n on.....to be continue 🤨🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸👊👊👊
Used to be no problem with these tackles. I think he was in his latter years of Rugby when the new rules were introduced. Can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Kelstonz Finest Bone-Rattler...add along with Apollo Perellini, Iga Tuigamala etc. When you played againts Trevor, no one else mattered on the opposition BUT....The Pitbull Himself. When you got hit by Trevor, there wasnt enought MORPHINE in the Ambulance to heal the PAIN until you got to the Hospital for RESTOCK of the Pain Killer Drug......RESPECT to the Uso.
@@Tongandingo1 everyone from Auckland knows him, most should in NZ and alot of people here in Australia as he currently lives in Melbourne I think. Oh yeah, and all of Samoa. As I said, jog on mate
I think sable is a harder tackler legal and left them rolling in pain sorry about spelling is name wrong but like he said when a reporter asked do you speak English. Why I am french brilliant
I played rugby 8 yrs on the all marine team on Hawaii. I was 147 lbs and fast. We played against sumaons daily. Bug ass dudes. I never once let them hit me full flush. Speed kills and if you know how to move and dodge, that would never happen. Of course I'm 52 and was 19 then but still
Robert Bertram Trust me, this is not the hardest rugby has. Clickbait title. Go look up real hard rugby hits, plenty of good compilations out there. I’m a huge rugby fan and a player myself, and I’ve never even heard of this guy. 🤷🏻♂️
still waiting for a samoan to dominate judo or any legit grappling sport though..they usually specialize on hit and run/ trainwreck demo of strenght..try static display of strength for a change
@@filisi26 hahaha not really..was able to roll with samoan judokas thats why i have developed this theory that they have to gain momentum first and static display of strength like grappling is not their cup of tea.☺️
@@filisi26 not throwing any shade here..its just my observation..they dominate hit and run contact sports but not really in terms of static strength..samoans are tall, and judo is unforgiving on tall judokas because of their center of gravity
@@mf_dom08 I'm not someone who is extremely well versed in judo but i took judo for a good 5 years from about 6. Maybe I'm not understanding your comment but what i leaned from judo which still has stuck with me all the way to adulthood is a good center of gravity along with using someone momentum and weight and to redirect it into a throw. Not once was strength involved in judo so when you say that you haven't seen a Samoan do judo well bc of static strength how does strength have to do with. Both grappling and judo are self defenses that allow a small person to handle someone much larger than themselves
@@pandabearmadness6263 i agree, grappling favors the peeps with smaller frame as its all about technique..i have rolled with samoans and blacks and grappling has somehow jolted them back to reality that brute force like the ones they have been complimenting on this video is not really big for me..i guess im challenging the normal impression that most of the folks have here because thats all there is to it..hit and run, wrecking ball approach..the physics is given thats why grapplers would be unforgiving to their opponents that rely on such tactics..you simply remove the opportunity for them to shift and deccelerate and let their momentum injure them..like in american football..that barbaric tackle will just look like a fool on a well-performed downward stiff-arm on his neck..crushing his skull in the process because thats all he had
I admit, I don't know much about rugby. That said, its seems like most of these hits are late hits and after the ball exchanges, where he hits a guy who has no time to react. Nothing admirable to those types of encounters..
Wait....I was just watching a video which you posted which said that Brian Lima was "Rugby's Hardest Ever Hitter" and on my recommended list here, I see another of your videos which says that Sebastien Chabal was "Rugby's Hardest Ever Hitter". I'm confused. How many "Hardest Ever Hitters" are there in rugby? Is this your full time occupation? Posting video after video after video of "Rugby's Hardest Ever Hitter"? Thumbs down.
Suh, clay mattews, Julius peppers(in his prime) Terrell Suggs etc would DE STROY this guy. The hits look big because they're tackling guys the size of WRs and Corners. Also if this is big and fast for rugby Vince Wilfork would have been a 5 time rugby champion.
