Rugby star drops a stone and half in bid to impress Eddie Jones

The 23-year-old, who has dropped a stone and a half, was lampooned by club boss Paul Gustard for his ‘university rig’ when he emerged from Cardiff Met two years ago to take the Premiership by storm.

At the conclusion of the 2018/19 season, Dombrandt was selected alongside Marcus Smith and Joe Marchant for England's Quilter Cup match against the Barbarians at Twickenham, where he scored two tries. This performance merited his selection for Eddie Jones' World Cup training camp. 

Here we look at five other rugby stars' incredible body transformations from down the years.

The former England flanker - who signed for MMA promotion Bellator last August - after his retirement from rugby has dropped a ton of weight ahead of his first fight. A trip into I'm A Celebrity Get Me out Of here sure did help him get lean. This sort of diet isn't recommended.

When he was a prop for the Wallabies Matt Dunning weighed 130kg and was constantly mocked for his tubby frame. But since retiring from rugby union the 35-year-old has lost a staggering 40kg, dropping from 25 per cent body fat to just 11 per cent in six months.

The Tongan prop has revealed an incredible weight loss in a video just months after was told he couldn’t play for a French club because he was too overweight!

The 56-cap Ireland back-rower showed of his latest body transformation, showing that he has been hard at work at the gym during lockdown.

O’Brien took to Instagram and surprised his fans by posting pictures of his shredded body, sending the internet into a meltdown

The centre missed out on Eddie Jones’ first squad for the Six Nations Grand Slam triumph in 2016 with the Aussie labelling him “grossly overweight”.

He revealed his incredible body transformation online yesterday saying in the caption…