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VIDEO: Is Buck the toughest rugby player ever?

WATCH as we bring you one of the most amazing stories to come from the game played with an oval-shaped ball.

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Rugby players are, by nature, hard men.

Wayne Thomas ‘Buck’ Shelford may just be one of – if not THE – toughest players ever in the game.

The retired All Black legend captained New Zealand in the late 1980s.

He is also credited with revitalising the performance of the All Blacks’ traditional “Ka Mate” haka.

Here he regales us with one of the most amazing incidents in his very storied career.

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