Also the discovery of concussions aren't minor injuries and they cause personality changes and early death. Would you want to lose your father to Alzheimer's at 40 and substance abuse/suicide at 50 just because he played rugby? That's far more important than "the new rules that are stifling the current game."
Some brilliant stories. The enforcer Bakkies is the stuff of legend. But this video illustrates his pace and rugby IQ. He was so underrated as a rugby player.
The problems come from the real headbangers who are prepared to boot you where it hurts most or even in the head. When you’re at the bottom of a ruck you can really catch a cold, metaphorically speaking.
@JoBloggs3rd-os6se that they are both now retired peaceful warriors, former opponents getting under each others skins then became team mates playing together for Toulon. Bakkies is now a butcher in South Africa with his own butchers business aptly called "Bakkies The Butcher" and Sheridan is involved in the wine industry, living in France and butchering grapes for a living. Bakkies sends Sheridan steaks for his birthday and Christmas and Sheridan sends Bakkies bottles of slaughtered grapes. Are you happy now ?
I do think he does that because it works for his benefits on the field, intimidating not knowing what behavior to expect from your opponent, can keep you mentally on edge when your near them, it’s a survival instinct.
It's not war you mug. It's a highly physical sport with rules and restrictions. Aggression is needed but there are limits to how far it can be taken. War is a nightmare where the survival of people is at stake and where brutality has no limits. People like Botha are fantastic if they can be restrained and drilled into disciplined players. Unhinged and sadistic agression is awful and terrible for the sport.
@marcdaniels9079 if you tackled someone in civilian life according to the rules of rugby, you would be put in jail. I have listened to enough rugby podcasts to know there are no top tier teams that have not committed dirty play. Don't throw stones
Priceless when English fans take the moral high ground on a player like Bakkies all the while celebrating Martin Johnson, the dirtiest captain in rugby history. Hipocrisy so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw.
If some of the things he did happened to you in the street, then you would probably run to report it to the Police and rightly so. What he does on the pitch is no more legal there than it is on the street.
@@johnlewis9745 I don't think anyone he ever played against went running to the police and I'm pretty sure he never assaulted anyone in the street. So all in all, I'm happy with my comment.
@@DH1985-MB Thuggery is thuggery wherever it occurs. Your phrase, ‘Went running to the police’ suggests you would consider such a player to be a coward. I wouldn’t agree. You will be aware that people who deliberately caused injury, during a game, have been prosecuted in a Criminal Court and convicted. Undoubtedly, it will not be the last time.
@@johnlewis9745 hahaha - don't suggest anything mate. If I say the word coward then by all means slay me for it. But until then, don't. Bakkies was a top-top player and athlete who won multiple trophies for club and country. End of.
World heavy weight campion from South Africa once said rugby was to rough for him. Heavy weight boxers are to small, they wil have to play in the back line. Jona Lomo was 1.96 meter and 118 kg and he played wing.
In the UFC Jon Jones is the undisputed GOAT. He has beaten the best of the best for 10/15 years without loss. His older brother however is a NFL line backer and Jon admits he needs help to have a chance against him. Size is everything..
Dirty player in a time when most forwards in ANY international team had dirty players. He's just got videos and stories behind it, where others don't so it gives a skewed impression it's only him.
He wasn't a bully. That was just rugby back then . Just did his job. If you're scared of bullies, this is the wrong sport to watch. Off the field he was very respectful. He just had a sense of humour about the 'enforcer' tag. From what I've read he just loves his family, lives a wholesome life. You need to maybe watch other videos where he shows so much respect to his opponents. One of my favourite players ever as he never left anything out there.
@@seanschoeman247 It most certainly wasn’t ‘just rugby back then’. Botha was a thug through and through and had numerous suspensions to prove it. He was a gutless coward.
@DECA94 What happened to rugby being a thug's game played by gentlemen? That assault of Jimmy Cowan was not the action of a gentleman. Don't tar other players with his brush.
Hard man for sure, but kind of a bully. That shit wouldn't have worked on the likes of Jerry Collins, and Buck Shelford would have eaten him for dinner. They were at least as hard as this guy, but didn't have to go around headbutting halfbacks to prove it.
Great player but his thug behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated in rugby today. If he was that tough why didn’t he take up boxing? Because a professional fighter would of eaten him alive. Lots of cheap shots and off the ball incidents. He would get a red card every game.
to be honest, I do get put off by some of the ott machismo of the south africans- blowin the kiss attitude was probably a bit reflective of that. dirty at times
This is sad honestly. Glorifying thuggish cheap shots and dirty playing is what this is, often leading to proper unnecessary long term damage. Those actions have no place on a rugby field.
Great player but what he did to luke Fitzgerald on the lions was psychopathic shit he genuinely couldve blinded a 20 year old kid edit: never mind it wasn't bakkies 🤣🤣
Ban a player for a season for a seriously violent act and let him earn his money elsewhere. Do it once to someone and most will desist, do it twice and they all will. If it doesn’t ban them for life.
Botha’s a thug. There’s nothing to laugh at when a, ‘Sportsman’ tries to injure an opponent. Today he’d be red carded every match for what he did. Why did SARFU allow such conduct to continue ? Is winning by any means part of the South African game ?
You're absolutely right. Botha was no doubt a tough rugby player and an asset to SA over the years, but he was without doubt just a thug. He went out with intention of hurting and trying to just intimidate opposition players. He wasn't an 'enforcer' at all, he was just a thug who played rugby as an excuse to be the scumbag he really was. To this day, I will never believe that the incident which ruled Adam Jones out of the Lions series in 09 was just a 'rugby incident'. He targeted him and wanted to injure him because Jones was demolishing the SA scrum that game. They couldn't beat him fairly, so took him out with a cheap shot. Thug tactics.
@@EFEWithEugene😂😂😂 oh shut up. There's a clear difference between being a physical player who plays hard but within the rules, and then someone who is a blatant thug and rugby us his excuse to act like it.
If you are able read you will know of the serious brain injuries that have come to light in recent years. Yet you consider rugby to be a soft touch ? Have you ever played the game on the field or did you play from the safety of the stand ?
"Just one more please captain!" Killed me! Hahaha Bakkies Springbok Legend!
"No Dan...I don't think he's born yet..."
Oh my...
A tough as nails player...
Naughty boy on the grass...
🇿🇦
Its the actions of players like Botha that contributed to the introduction of many of the new rules that are stifling the current game.
Also the discovery of concussions aren't minor injuries and they cause personality changes and early death.
Would you want to lose your father to Alzheimer's at 40 and substance abuse/suicide at 50 just because he played rugby?
That's far more important than "the new rules that are stifling the current game."
With a name like “Bakkies Botha” you would expect exactly that
I see what u did there😂😂
at least you know it is not a Hilux...
Getting a headbutt from that cement block skull must hurt
He should never have been allowed near a rugby ball again after that. You couldn't even do that in PRIDE FC. Truly one of the most vile men to play.
@@gileschenery974fedor would dominate world rugby
"Cement block skull" 😂😂😂
Shame if Jimmy Cowan had not cheated he would not have got a head Butt@@gileschenery974
Bakkies first of his name and enforcer of the boks.
Last of a breed. Probably a good thing
Other teams and countrys complain about
Bakkies all the time but in their mind they wish they had him on their side.
Some brilliant stories. The enforcer Bakkies is the stuff of legend. But this video illustrates his pace and rugby IQ. He was so underrated as a rugby player.
The problems come from the real headbangers who are prepared to boot you where it hurts most or even in the head. When you’re at the bottom of a ruck you can really catch a cold, metaphorically speaking.
Just one more captain 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
he didnt want any of sheridan or census johstone , fact... he liked to bully the weak ones
He was mates with Sheridan. They both played together for Toulon
Oh please,he was knocking people out as a bouncer straight from school,every night.
@markbrown-sb2zm what on earth has working as a bouncer got to do with playing rugby ??
Sheridan disagrees with you , literally what more do you want us to say?
@JoBloggs3rd-os6se that they are both now retired peaceful warriors, former opponents getting under each others skins then became team mates playing together for Toulon. Bakkies is now a butcher in South Africa with his own butchers business aptly called "Bakkies The Butcher" and Sheridan is involved in the wine industry, living in France and butchering grapes for a living. Bakkies sends Sheridan steaks for his birthday and Christmas and Sheridan sends Bakkies bottles of slaughtered grapes. Are you happy now ?
Bro.....the Springboks are full of bullies of every possible size😄
Faf 😂😂😂😂
@@NEMESIS_10 you got it😄
Sometimes Etzebeth exerts Bakkies Botha energy
I do think he does that because it works for his benefits on the field, intimidating not knowing what behavior to expect from your opponent, can keep you mentally on edge when your near them, it’s a survival instinct.
Gr8 player. But the dirty play takes the shine of his rugby immortality.
flying in with your head head butting players who are just itting at rucks is as cheap as you can get.
He was not a dirty player, the other players were soft
Being dirty doesn’t mean you weren’t good🤷🏿♂️
And the hypocrisy. All mr Christian but really just a bully…
@@robertpicton1 hold on wait a minute let me put some kush up init, he wasn't a bully, he was a hard player in an era that physicality was allowed
Bakkies the Warrior
Don’t care what others think. Rugby is war, and Bakkies was one of its greatest soldiers. He invented the enforcer role. Afrikaans Harry Callahan
It's not war you mug. It's a highly physical sport with rules and restrictions. Aggression is needed but there are limits to how far it can be taken. War is a nightmare where the survival of people is at stake and where brutality has no limits. People like Botha are fantastic if they can be restrained and drilled into disciplined players. Unhinged and sadistic agression is awful and terrible for the sport.
No absolute psychopath. Unacceptable face of rugby. If you did this in civilian life you would rightly be locked up.
What a ridiculous comment.. Mans a grub and cost teams dearly... dummy
Live your own life and not through the life of somebody else.
@marcdaniels9079 if you tackled someone in civilian life according to the rules of rugby, you would be put in jail. I have listened to enough rugby podcasts to know there are no top tier teams that have not committed dirty play. Don't throw stones
Mike Tyson of rugby
Bakkies forever.....
Chuck Norris sleeps in Bakkies Botha pjs.
Ya sure he was hard as nails but also a bully against young players
Remember he headbutted Jimmy Cowan back of his head 😂
Have a look how he did with the real hard man Mamuka Gorgodze bullied him around the park
What adds to the fear factor is the South African accent. Even if you are as soft as cotton wool a SA accent makes you sound scary.
Priceless when English fans take the moral high ground on a player like Bakkies all the while celebrating Martin Johnson, the dirtiest captain in rugby history. Hipocrisy so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw.
Botha, son of Mamuka . . . . .
Gorgodze?
5 extra HD cameras around the pitch then I retired
"The Terminator" aka Bakkies Botha
Thank the mighty motherland gods my last rugby days was 1996. If I ever played against Bakkies, I would still be in hospital.
Oom bakkies!! Legend!!!
Ah Bakkies, what a legend 😊
I bet he wouldn't pick on Henry Tuilagi though
ya the Boks were shit scared of Henry lol
oli jager - gentle giant but an absolute unit
Yes he would have you actually ever seen Bakkies play rugby?
Bakkies Botha don't fear anyone those who does admitted but Bakkies Botha is a rough cat
Excellent player, proper character of the game.
If some of the things he did happened to you in the street, then you would probably run to report it to the
Police and rightly so. What he does on the pitch is no more legal there than it is on the street.
@@johnlewis9745 I don't think anyone he ever played against went running to the police and I'm pretty sure he never assaulted anyone in the street. So all in all, I'm happy with my comment.
@@DH1985-MB Thuggery is thuggery wherever it occurs. Your phrase, ‘Went running to the police’ suggests you would consider such a player to be a coward. I wouldn’t agree. You will be aware that people who deliberately caused injury, during a game, have been prosecuted in a Criminal Court and convicted. Undoubtedly, it will not be the last time.
@@johnlewis9745 hahaha - don't suggest anything mate. If I say the word coward then by all means slay me for it. But until then, don't. Bakkies was a top-top player and athlete who won multiple trophies for club and country. End of.
@@DH1985-MB Like you I believe we should let things lie.
He couldn't half shift for a man that size
Some salty comments huh!! Shame!
Bakkies is and will forever be a legend!!
Are they salty. ? Tramp or thug behaviour is still tramp/thug behaviour
😂😂😂you can tell by the smile on his face that he laughs the violence
Bakkies was full rage. hahaha.
World heavy weight campion from South Africa once said rugby was to rough for him.
Heavy weight boxers are to small, they wil have to play in the back line. Jona Lomo was 1.96 meter and 118 kg and he played wing.
In the UFC Jon Jones is the undisputed GOAT. He has beaten the best of the best for 10/15 years without loss. His older brother however is a NFL line backer and Jon admits he needs help to have a chance against him. Size is everything..
Looks like Frankenstein
its a contact sport
Which has strict laws.
How can u hate Farrell an love Bakkies...u can't. Dirty player I hate the most risking health of other players? Foff
Dirty player in a time when most forwards in ANY international team had dirty players. He's just got videos and stories behind it, where others don't so it gives a skewed impression it's only him.
Everything Botha did is now illegal in rugby
Bullies are so great. Great to see one celebrated in this way.
Oh hell mate its rugby locks and hookers are supposed to be like that.....
He wasn't a bully. That was just rugby back then . Just did his job. If you're scared of bullies, this is the wrong sport to watch. Off the field he was very respectful. He just had a sense of humour about the 'enforcer' tag. From what I've read he just loves his family, lives a wholesome life. You need to maybe watch other videos where he shows so much respect to his opponents. One of my favourite players ever as he never left anything out there.
@@seanschoeman247 It most certainly wasn’t ‘just rugby back then’. Botha was a thug through and through and had numerous suspensions to prove it. He was a gutless coward.
Dont know much about Rugby do you. Basically a field with 30 Bullies running into each-other for 80 mins, if thats not your cup of tea keep scrolling.
@DECA94 What happened to rugby being a thug's game played by gentlemen? That assault of Jimmy Cowan was not the action of a gentleman. Don't tar other players with his brush.
Hard man for sure, but kind of a bully. That shit wouldn't have worked on the likes of Jerry Collins, and Buck Shelford would have eaten him for dinner. They were at least as hard as this guy, but didn't have to go around headbutting halfbacks to prove it.
It’s rugby it’s not soccer at least the violence is on the field
Bakkies Botha was Badass Honey Badger of the Rugby world h'z one tough dude who can get hurt& bleed but won't feel the pain until the game is over.
Great player but his thug behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated in rugby today. If he was that tough why didn’t he take up boxing? Because a professional fighter would of eaten him alive. Lots of cheap shots and off the ball incidents. He would get a red card every game.
Disgraceful player! He was everything that was wrong with the game at that time
Karma's a bitch he will get his own back
This guy is nothing never seen him throw a punch like Eben
to be honest, I do get put off by some of the ott machismo of the south africans- blowin the kiss attitude was probably a bit reflective of that. dirty at times
This is sad honestly. Glorifying thuggish cheap shots and dirty playing is what this is, often leading to proper unnecessary long term damage. Those actions have no place on a rugby field.
Great player but what he did to luke Fitzgerald on the lions was psychopathic shit he genuinely couldve blinded a 20 year old kid edit: never mind it wasn't bakkies 🤣🤣
That was Schalk Burger, not Bakkies
@@AAdams456 ah shit your right sorry
Ban a player for a season for a seriously violent act and let him earn his money elsewhere. Do it once to someone and most will desist, do it twice and they all will. If it doesn’t ban them for life.
That doesn't mean he is a GREAT player!!!
glorifying the violence of a common thug embarrassing
Grub
Botha’s a thug. There’s nothing to laugh at when a, ‘Sportsman’ tries to injure an opponent. Today he’d be red carded every match for what he did. Why did SARFU allow such conduct to continue ? Is winning by any means part of the South African game ?
Spot on jerry collins would have gone straight through him
You're absolutely right. Botha was no doubt a tough rugby player and an asset to SA over the years, but he was without doubt just a thug.
He went out with intention of hurting and trying to just intimidate opposition players.
He wasn't an 'enforcer' at all, he was just a thug who played rugby as an excuse to be the scumbag he really was.
To this day, I will never believe that the incident which ruled Adam Jones out of the Lions series in 09 was just a 'rugby incident'. He targeted him and wanted to injure him because Jones was demolishing the SA scrum that game. They couldn't beat him fairly, so took him out with a cheap shot. Thug tactics.
Yeah, cause rugby is a soft sport with absolutely no contact, blood, concussions, fractures, etc.
Say it in his face, maybe I'll believe you.
@@EFEWithEugene😂😂😂 oh shut up. There's a clear difference between being a physical player who plays hard but within the rules, and then someone who is a blatant thug and rugby us his excuse to act like it.
@@EFEWithEugene You are being puerile. Of course rugby is a tough and rough contact sport. That is exactly why thuggery is not required.
now rugby become so soft, they touch each others buts and hug all the time.
If you are able read you will know of the serious brain injuries that have come to light in recent years. Yet you consider rugby to be a soft touch ? Have you ever played the game on the field or did you play from the safety of the stand ?
Original Enforcer, every body loves him, except if he is not on there team
Thug
Bouncer, Enforcer, Bully, Thug. No good for Rugby.
No cool.
i got video were jerry collins
smashing him around also chris masoe
jerry was a beast and a true gentleman, loved him here in wales, sad loss
All you people who condone thuggery would probably fill your knickers if it happened to you. Live your own life and not through that of others.
An absolute Animal and a disgrace to the game. But typical of Springbok rugby
Jerry Collins sorted him out
Thug