Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 07 Episode 28 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a bright and sunny Sunday morning 29 October 2023.

Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Blue Continent.

In rugby union: In the RWC2023 final this morning, South Africa has beaten New Zealand 11-12 with Handre Pollard kicking four penalties, to one try to Beauden Barrett for the Kiwis and his younger bro, Jordie missing a late long range penalty.

The turning point came in the 34th minute, when All Blacks Captain Sam Cane was yellow-carded for a high tackle which was upgraded to red on review by the TMO.

Springboks Captain Siya Kolisi was also yellow-carded for a similar offense which was not upgraded and will be a talking point long into the night.

And Ireland is the inaugural WXV3 Champions after beating Spain 15-13 in Dubai, to lift the WXV3 trophy and earn promotion to WXV2, with Samoa dropping down to join Fijiana there next year.

In rugby league: Australia beat New Zealand 18-36 in a tense clash between the arch rivals at AAMI Park in Melbourne last night.

Kangaroos bench prop Lindsay Collins scored an unlikely double in the first half, while Nicho Hynes and Tom Flegler both made their Test debuts.

Big Mal is now 12/12 on Australian soil and the sides will meet again in the Pacific Championships final in Hamilton next Saturday night.

Earlier the New Zealand Kiwi Ferns ended seven years of heartbreak to stun the Australian Jillaroos 6-12 in a monumental upset at AAMI Park in Melbourne yesterday.

A year after they were obliterated by 50 points in the Rugby League World Cup final, a new-look Kiwi Ferns side got their revenge despite spending the majority of the match defending their own line.

And Fiji Bati Coach Wise Kativerata has confirmed that Penrith Panther’s star, Sunia Turuva will miss the clash against the Papua New Guinea Kumuls today after sustaining a calf injury but stressed the injury wasn’t “major”.

In football: This was supposed to be the “El Clásico of the Rolling Stones” - their logo adorned Barça's shirts, and rock legends, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood were in their directors' box.

The soundtrack in the end though, was the Beatles track: "Hey Jude."

Barcelona was cruising early in front of a home crowd, through a sixth-minute Ilkay Gündogan goal, but then The Jude Bellingham Show began.

First, the English midfielder scored from a stunning, thunderous shot in the 68th minute - the speed and power behind it too much for the Barcelona goalkeeper. Then, in stoppage time, Bellingham scored the game winner.

With the result, Barcelona have their first loss of the La Liga season and fall to third on the league table as Real Madrid leapfrog their way to first.

In combat sports: At 123.4Kg and 1.93M tall, Francis Ngannou isn’t a small man. In fact, the French Cameroonian former UFC Heavyweight Champion is only giving away 12.5cms in height and 6.4Kg in weight to the Gypsy King when they clash in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today.

Despite the Englishman shouting: “I’m bigger than you little man! and trash talking Ngannou’s team with, “I’m going to smash your boy. There’s only one heavyweight champion, that’s me!”

Ngannou took the more cool-headed approach, telling journalists,
“Anything is possible. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here.”

If Ngannou does land the ‘big shot’ today, and that’s a pretty big ‘if’, Fury may yet rue this fight.

And that’s a wrap!

For TeivovoSports.com I’m Culden Kamea – please hit the like and subscribe buttons below if you want to receive more Pasifika sports highlights on Breakfast Bites.

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