A
prop, Knight represented
Horowhenua and
Manawatu at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the
All Blacks, from 1977 to 1986. He played 66 matches for the All Blacks, including 36 internationals. While playing for the All Blacks during the third test of the
1981 Springbok Tour, Knight was famously felled by a
flour bomb dropped by
Marx Jones. ==Wrestling==