All Blacks laugh off 'insensitive' haka spoof


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 17 Sep 2015

LONDON (Reuters) - English Rugby World Cup winner Matt Dawson's lampooning of the haka in an advert for a clothing company has riled plenty of New Zealanders on social media, but the All Blacks synonymous with the traditional dance on Wednesday laughed off his spoof.

Dawson's video features a version of the haka called the 'hakarena' where Dawson combines the traditional ancestral war cry with a Spanish dance song, the Macarena, and the result is a camp and comical 'mash-up' of the two.

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