{"id":525738,"date":"2026-07-14T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525738\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:38:15","slug":"all-blacks-italy-lock-niccolo-cannone-banned-four-matches-for-headbutt-on-cam-roigard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525738\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks: Italy lock Niccolo Cannone banned four matches for headbutt on Cam Roigard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn light of Cannone\u2019s acceptance that he committed an act of foul play worthy of ordering off, as well as mitigating factors such as his disciplinary record, conduct, and remorse, the FPRC applied a two-week reduction to the sanction.<\/p>\n

\u201cCannone has been suspended from all forms of the game for four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Herald\u2019s player ratings, Cannone scored 1\/10<\/a>. Journalist Sam Sherry said he \u201cwas rightly sent off for a headbutt on Cam Roigard. Carried the ball fairly well but really let his side down with his ridiculous action\u201d.<\/p>\n

His suspension means the locking regular will miss Saturday\u2019s Nations Championship test against Australia in Perth and three matches for his Italian club, Benetton Rugby, when the new season begins in September.<\/p>\n

Australia were beaten by France last week, with the visitors overcoming a nine-point halftime deficit to triumph 42-26<\/a> in a pulsating clash in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn light of Cannone\u2019s acceptance that he committed an act of foul play worthy of ordering off, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9092,5263,85,26977,8136,26879,260122,10635,18239,3019,2082,19134,3011,260123,1224,685,48053,13085,40839,14574,17154,111,139,260121,69,90,49478,26880,213,14578,4767,1533,102,80],"class_list":["post-525738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-against","tag-all","tag-australia","tag-banned","tag-blacks","tag-cam","tag-cannone","tag-card","tag-championship","tag-clash","tag-for","tag-forward","tag-four","tag-headbutt","tag-italy","tag-last","tag-lock","tag-matches","tag-meaning","tag-miss","tag-nations","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-niccolo","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-receiving","tag-roigard","tag-sports","tag-tuesday","tag-weekend","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}