{"id":602129,"date":"2026-05-24T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:44:11","slug":"big-ben-10-heaviest-rugby-players-of-all-time-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602129\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big Ben&#8221; &#8211; 10 Heaviest rugby players of all-time ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby has always had a weakness for sheer bulk, but every so often the sport produces players who seem built from something sturdier than flesh and bone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50 Save us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4bziEdo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Favourites\u00a0<\/a>for nonstop RUCK content!<\/p>\n<p>These are the colossi who left referees double-checking the team sheet, folded scrum machines in half and made entire forward packs wonder if gravity still applied.<\/p>\n<p>Forget festive overindulgence \u2014 this is rugby at its most brutally oversized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel\/AbYd2l05pp1bM_Ix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Join RUCK\u2019s Instagram broadcast channel <\/a>and get the latest rugby news straight to your phone.<\/p>\n<p>5. Posolo Tuilagi (France) \u2013 149kg<\/p>\n<p>The latest juggernaut off the famous Tuilagi production line. Already a Test lock for France and flattening anything in front of him for Perpignan, Posolo brings the family\u2019s trademark destruction to the engine room. <\/p>\n<p>At nearly 150kg, he moves alarmingly well for his size, making him less \u201cbig unit\u201d and more \u201crolling natural disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>4. Asenathi Ntlabakanye (South Africa) \u2013 150kg<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed\u00a0Ox Lite\u00a0for good reason, Ntlabakanye muscled his way into the Springboks set-up in 2024 after folding scrums for the Lions. <\/p>\n<p>A tighthead built like a concrete mixer, his game is brutally simple: dominate collisions, crush the set-piece and leave looseheads in survival mode. Still developing \u2014 already frightening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/heaviest-rugby-player-of-all-time-was-over-25-stone-top-10-ranked\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE TWO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby has always had a weakness for sheer bulk, but every so often the sport produces players who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}