Hull KR may be rugby league’s new world club champions but, on the biggest stage the sport can provide its star athletes, it was Leeds Rhinos who produced their very best in Las Vegas to dismantle the Super League champions.
A week after stunning Brisbane Broncos, the National Rugby League premiers, to win the World Club Challenge for the first time, the Robins headed to Nevada keen to put on another show to enhance their burgeoning reputation as one of the sport’s great sides. But the Super League champions were humbled by one of their main title rivals.