The long-awaited new global men’s competition outside of the Rugby World Cup has been approved to start in 2026. World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont hails it as “an historic moment for our sport that sets us up collectively for success.” South America Rugby president Sebastian Pineyrua warned before the vote, “It’s the death of rugby.
South Africa’s Eben Etzebeth, fourth left, with teammates South Africa’s Steven Kitshoff, and South Africa’s Franco Mostert push through a ruck during the Rugby World Cup semifinal match between England and South Africa at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Saturday, Oct, 21, 2023. World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont hailed it as “an historic moment for our sport that sets us up collectively for success.
All of the tier two teams at the ongoing World Cup in France begged for more matches with the tier one teams from the Six Nations and Rugby Championship to increase their competitiveness and level the playing field at rugby’s showpiece event. Only two weeks ago, at the end of the pool stage in France where the likes of Fiji, Portugal, Samoa and debutant Chile shone, Beaumont said the new international calendar “will benefit the many, not the few.”
“It will kill rugby,” he told the Daily Mail last week. “It will be impossible to compete with those teams in four or five years. They’re going to go up and the others will go down.”
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