Eye-gouging, facial herpes, attacks from timber-wielding spectators, food poisoning and then a flour bombing - tighthead prop Gary Knight was a bulls eye for controversy when he played for the All Blacks.
Wrestling was his initial sporting interest and he claimed a bronze medal in the superheavyweight class at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in 1974.
He was dabbling in rugby but three years later made his test debut against France in what became some initiation as Gerard Cholley eye gouged him.
In 1981, the prop scored his solitary test try against the Springboks before a protestor-pilot claimed Knight with a flour bomb on the side of the head at Eden Park.
"It hit with a decent wallop," he recalled, "there was probably a pound of flour in it and it knocked me to the ground. I had a headache afterwards."