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Brian Lima knocks himself out with crunching hit - 1997
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SX3fqzCrmdI/AAAAAAAACuY/t-RbaGNYPDk/s1600-h/brian-lima-cuckoo.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SX3fqzCrmdI/AAAAAAAACuY/t-RbaGNYPDk/s400/brian-lima-cuckoo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295634663206525394" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"As we sort through the best clips of the past weekend, we pause to take a look back to a /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"sickening collision from the Super 12, in approximately 1997./spanbr /br /It was Auckland against the Gauteng Lions (as they were known back then), and we get to see one of the hardest hitters in the games history in action.br /br /While Samoan Brian Lima was always known for his uncompromising tackling style, there were a few blotches in his career as the killer hits sometimes drifted a little too high.br /br /In the 2007 World Cup he famously knocked himself out when going a little too a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-lima-knocks-himself-out.html"high on Andre Pretorious/a. Much debate always follows regarding the legality of some of the hits. Many love them, while others write them off as downright dirty.br /br /In this clip though, all those years back, we see a fairly similar incident as a young and fearless Lima launches into Gauteng fullback Dawie Du Toit, knocking himself out cold on impact.br /br /It was a crunching hit, with a sickening noise and unfortunate result. As we all know though, Lima recovered, going on to make quite a name for himself with his robust style of play, and more than a few spectacular hits throughout his career.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SNWxwtYtoRQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SNWxwtYtoRQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="350"/embed/object/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"www.rugbydump.com/divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?a=bgDoQe.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?i=bgDoQe.P" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/523631671" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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