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Sonny Bill Williams
Personal information
Full name
Sonny William Williams
Born
(1985-08-03) 3 August 1985 (age 38) Auckland, New Zealand
Height
191 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight
108 kg (17 st 0 lb; 238 lb)[1]
Playing information
Rugby league
Position
Second-row, Centre, Lock
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2004–08
Canterbury Bulldogs
73
31
0
0
124
2013–14
Sydney Roosters
45
11
0
0
44
2020
Toronto Wolfpack
5
0
0
0
0
2020
Sydney Roosters
5
0
0
0
0
Total
128
42
0
0
168
Representative
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2004–13
New Zealand
12
5
0
0
20
Rugby union
Position
Centre, Wing
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2008–10
Toulon
33
6
0
0
30
2010
Canterbury
7
4
0
0
20
2011
Crusaders
15
5
0
0
25
2012, 2014-2016
Chiefs
28
6
0
0
30
2012
Panasonic Wild Knights
7
2
0
0
10
2014–19
Counties Manukau
3
0
0
0
0
2017–19
Blues
18
1
0
0
5
Total
111
24
0
0
120
Representative
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2010–19
New Zealand
58
13
0
80
2016
New Zealand Sevens
7
4
0
0
20
Source: [2]
As of 16 July 2022
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Sonny William Williams (born 3 August 1985) is a New Zealand heavyweight boxer, and a former professional rugby league and rugby union player. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the country in rugby league, and is one of only 43 players to have won the Rugby World Cup twice.[3]
Williams began his career in rugby league, and has played as a second-row forward over eight seasons in three spells in the National Rugby League (NRL), with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Sydney Roosters. He has won 12 caps for New Zealand (the Kiwis) and won the RLIF Awards for Rookie of the Year in 2004 and International Player of the Year in 2013. In 2020 he played for the Toronto Wolfpack in Super League, before moving to Sydney Roosters the same year.
He first moved to rugby union in 2010 and played mainly as a centre for Toulon in France, Canterbury, Counties Manukau, the Crusaders, Chiefs and Blues in New Zealand and Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan. He won 58 caps for New Zealand (the All Blacks), and was part of the teams that won the 2011 and 2015 World Cups. He also played rugby sevens for New Zealand, competing in the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 2016 Olympics. He retired from both rugby codes in March 2021.
Williams has boxed professionally ten times. He was the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association (NZPBA) Heavyweight Champion and World Boxing Association (WBA) International Heavyweight Champion, but was stripped of these titles after failing to respond to challenges.[4]
^ ab"Stats | allblacks.com". Stats.allblacks.com. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^"Sonny Bill Williams - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
^"Former All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams turns focus to boxing". 10 March 2021.
^Ganguly, Sudipto (15 December 2013). "Sonny Bill Williams stripped of boxing belts". Reuters. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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