Who is Ben Tameifuna New Zealand rugby player, bio, age, height, weight, wife, salary

Who is Ben Tameifuna New Zealand rugby player, bio, age, height, weight, wife, salary

Have a look at the heaviest 2023 Rugby World Cup player as he weighs same as a piano and sumo wrestlers and know the wife and weight of Ben Tameifuna

Rugby forwards aren’t typically thought of as the most agile athletes. As the Rugby World Cup begins in France, get ready to witness some incredible physical strength as players tackle, maul, and ruck their way through each battle. It’s reasonable to conclude that size and muscle mass are paramount.

Who is Ben Tameifuna New Zealand rugby player, bio, age, height, weight, wife, salary and net worth

Ben Tameifuna, a Tongan player who is also the tournament’s heaviest participant, takes that idea to a whole new level.

Born in New Zealand Tameifuna has received a lot of confusion and even criticism because of his weight. He was previously told to lose 20 kg after coming up to a pre-2019 World Cup training session weighing an enormous 160 kg.

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Before flying to Europe in 2015 with French team Racing 92, the 32-year-old player briefly considered playing for the All Blacks when he was younger. Tameifuna is currently weighing in at a still-mind-boggling 140kg and is now at Bordeaux Begles.

Born: 30 August 1991 (age 32 years), Auckland, New Zealand
Weight: 148 kg
Height: 1.82 m
Current team: Union Bordeaux Bègles
Nationality: New Zealand
School: Hastings Boys’ High School

He is currently single and unmarried. While his salary isn’t known, he has a net worth of $500,000-$1 million.

His dreadful stature places him on par with grown-up pandas, the world’s largest sumo wrestlers, or even a typical upright piano (not quite a grand piano!). He weights the same as two full-sized kegs of beer, for the beer aficionados among us. Once Tameifuna revealed the key to packing on the pounds, saying:

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Too many croissants and baguettes! Obviously I don’t have a six-pack! I look at food and put on weight!’”

The weight Tameifuna carried eventually caught up with him despite his humour. His former Racing 92 coach sat the tighthead down and advised him to modify his routine. He recounted in an interview with Rugby World:

“I pretty much promised myself on that day, ‘I’m never gonna get back to that 160kg bracket ever again.’

“We’d come off a big European season and then it floats around to the World Cup (with Tonga). To be honest, I just let my hair down (after that). I’d just gone through a big year, I was back home, I was just enjoying Mum’s cooking.

He further said that he was completely honest, he was too lazy to accomplish anything. Rugby, rugby, rugby had been all he could think about. He simply wanted to do nothing for two or three weeks because he knew that life would resume as usual for another nine months once he returned to France.

Yeah, I (made mistakes), but as a rugby player it’s about how you react to it. It’s either you drop your lip and go home and have another pizza or you get into the gym and just get stuck into it.”

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