Peter Jackson: Leinster's KO of La Rochelle one for the ages
RESPECT: Dan Sheehan of Leinster after his side's victory in the Investec Champions Cup quarter-final match between Leinster and La Rochelle at the Aviva Stadium. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
On the Richter Scale of champions chinned in the defence of their title, Leinster’s rocking of La Rochelle surpasses every knock-out in the ring of European rugby.
Not as indecently swift as Mike Tyson’s 91-second demolition of Michael Spinks in Atlantic City during the summer of 1988 but, as an exercise in cumulative punishment, it stands as the most emphatic beating inflicted upon any holder of rugby’s super-heavyweight club crown.
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