{"id":647547,"date":"2026-11-01T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647547\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:36:12","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-ronaldo-mulitalo-to-miss-semi-final-after-fiji-send-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647547\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup: Ronaldo Mulitalo to miss semi-final after Fiji send-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">That would mean he would miss next weekend\u2019s semi-final against the winner of tonight\u2019s match between Tonga and Samoa.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Kalyn Ponga. Photo \/ Photosport\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Kalyn Ponga. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Following the tackle, both teams were involved in an altercation that saw Fiji halfback Brandon Wakeham punch Mulitalo while the Kiwi was on the ground. Wakeham was also sent from the field and, like Mulitalo, faces a ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">With Fiji\u2019s World Cup campaign now over, Wakeham will serve any suspension at the beginning of the upcoming NRL season for his Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, the Kiwis look likely to have Ponga back in black for the knockout stages after the star fullback suffered a broken arm in the tournament opener against Australia just two-and-a-half weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That would mean he would miss next weekend\u2019s semi-final against the winner of tonight\u2019s match between Tonga and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9092,9526,1863,317368,10542,6119,2566,71,78977,671,15258,5511,84019,807,14731,14574,317367,111,139,69,16803,14727,84020,13084,54572,6327,5500,187893,19255,213,162551,49519,61,73886,1845,377],"class_list":["post-647547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-against","tag-another","tag-back","tag-bati","tag-cup","tag-faces","tag-fiji","tag-from","tag-fullback","tag-incident","tag-injury","tag-just","tag-kalyn","tag-kiwis","tag-league","tag-miss","tag-mulitalo","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onfield","tag-outside","tag-ponga","tag-prepare","tag-ronaldo","tag-rugby","tag-semifinal","tag-sendoff","tag-sidelines","tag-sports","tag-stint","tag-superstar","tag-to","tag-ugly","tag-welcome","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647547","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=647547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}