Well, welcome to our readers here in New Zealand, & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger, but first that I was doing my blog in 2022 about comparing to different eras in sport like the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors would prolly slay the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls in terms of their style of play according to Draymond Green who is one of the players playing for the Dubs in the National Basketball Association that he was rewatching game 6 between the Chicago Bulls & the Utah Jazz in the 1998 NBA finals, but nowadays this year that the 2015 men's Rugby World Cup winning All Blacks side would totally massacre the 2023 Springboks team in a game of rugby by 22 points compared to the 2023 Aussie Cricket team that won the men's ODI Cricket World Cup would annihilate the 2019 England Cricket team in an ODI cricket match, & the 2018 French national Football (Soccer) team (AKA les Bleus) who were champions of the football (Soccer) world, would outsmart the 2022 Argentinian national Football (Soccer) Team (Known as la Albiceleste) by the barest of margins of a single point in a game of football (Soccer) as well.
And secondly that there was a tragic story that I never mentioned before on my blogs involving the African American boxer James 'The Harlem Hammer' Butler who famously king hitted a Jamaican competitor of Richard 'The Alien' Grant after a 10 round charity boxing fight to raise awareness for the victims & their families lives who have lost in a tragic terror attack in New York on September 11th, back in 2001 in front of legislation enforcement, fire, & paramedic services during a post-fight attack which took place, before been given a 4 month incarceration sentence for the crime that he first committed, then he was sent back to the slammer behind bars for 29 years & 4 months for the killing of sportswriter Sam Kellerman also back in 2004 in which the man known as 'The Hammer' committed another crime for which was serious in which he was a repeat offender, & has been there since (And the late Sam told Butler several times as he asked him to leave that place then, even before the murder take place which did not impress one of the police inspectors who saw something that foul play must've been occurred).
And thirdly that La Roja of the Spain national football team in their bid of winning this year's Football (Soccer) men's World Cup after 16 years where they won their one, & only World Cup title back in 2010, were about to deliver the bad news that they had a major, Lamine Yamal is out, for the whole tournament (As a result of a torn adductor that he's currently dealing with which could be heartbreaking for the Spanish & their chances of winning the Football (Soccer) men's World Cup for the first time since 16 years ago (But they have not confirmed this since they have made it unofficial), just like New Zealand who have our injured stars such as captain Chris Wood who recently returned from knee surgery to play for his club of Nottingham Forest coached by an Aussie of Ange Postecoglou in the Premier League (Which is currently led by Arsenal, but Manchester City are chasing them down in order to regain the title that they last won in the 2023-24 season before Liverpool were the champions last season, in 2024-25), as well as stand in skipper Michael Boxall due to a groin problem, & others like vice-captain Liberato Cacace (An Italian Kiwi (Just like Sir John's son Niko the footballer (Soccer player), & his America's Cup sailor brother of Luca who sailed for the Italian syndicate of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in the 2024 edition of the Louis Vuitton Cup) who was 9 or 10 years of age when he attended school when New Zealand last appeared on a world football (Soccer) stage), Sarpreet Singh (Also an Indian Kiwi who is both the Rachin Ravindra, & Ish Sodhi of New Zealand football (Soccer) who plays for the Wellington Phoenix), Marko Stamenic (One of the New Zealander players who is of both Croatian (Just like Ivan Vicelich (His 18 year old son Luka plays for Auckland FC as part of the youth academy system) that we used to have), & Samoan descent (Also just like Tim Cahill who is a Samoan Aussie, but his English born son named Kyah (His famous dad Tim is from Australia) has opted to play for his ancestral homeland of the Samoans) & comes from a family of both people from Dalmatia, & the Pacific Islands), & Matt Garbett), just like that Argentinian World Cup winning defender Juan Foyth who will miss the tournament altogether with a serious injury, such as a ruptured Achilles that hampered Argentina's chances of becoming the first side since Brazil in 1962, to complete the successful defence of the World Cup.
And finally in the Pac 4 women's Rugby Championship such as the Black Ferns (Who had disciplinary issues such as Tanya Kalounivale who had been sent to the sin bin, then on report for a high contact on an American player, before the bunker decided that it has been changed to a send off offence, meaning that Kalounivale will be suspended for the next game according to the judiciary (But there has been an update as Kalounivale is cleared of any serious wrongdoing meaning that she is free to play against Canada), & we played with 13 players at one point after one of our Black Ferns players had been sent to the bin for an infraction) begin our women's Rugby World Cup cycle with a win against the United States at Sacramento, California, therefore beginning our tournament campaign by bouncing back after disappointment in the semi of the women's World Cup against Canada last year, then the Canadians overcame a weather delay with a flawless victory (Or a perfect, great or excellent win) over the Wallaroos of Australia (Who had Cecelia Smith sin binned for a dangerous tackle) with a 24 - 0 clean sheet score line, but set their sights on New Zealand (Who are seeking vengeance after our heartbreaking defeat in the semifinal against them of last year's women's RWC in Bristol, England in one of the biggest boil overs of the tournament in which the Black Ferns are winless in the last 3 meetings against the Canadian women (Both losses (Including the ones in Christchurch the year before, & in Bristol in the women's World Cup semi last year) & a draw (That was also last year at the Apollo Projects Stadium), but our last victory came in 2023 in which the last time New Zealand had defeated Canada in international women's rugby) as they continue their dominance against us when the next round is scheduled on Friday April 17th in Kansas City, Missouri.
So that is my 705th blog of the year 2026 (MMXXVI) & my 57th of this year, viva Ukraine.
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