Mark McGaw is an Australian former professional
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footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He achieved national and state representative honours in the sport and following his retirement became one of the Gladiators in the Australian version of the TV show. McGaw's usual position was at centre. He played his club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks,
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and
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Mark McGaw appeared as "Hammer" on the Australian version of the TV show
Gladiators from 1995 to 1997 as well as modelling for
Lowes MenswearLowes Menswear is an Australian menswear chain established in 1898. They primarily sell workwear and suits, as well as clothes for larger men and schoolwear....
.
Mark McGaw is founder of
Mark McGaw Institute of Sports Science.
On 2 November 2006 the
Supreme Court of New South WalesThe Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...
awarded former
Gladiator and
rugby leagueRugby league football is a full-contact form of football, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union...
star Mark McGaw $385,000 for a defamatory story
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broadcast in June 2003.
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Mark McGaw is an Australian former professional
rugby leagueRugby league football is a full-contact form of football, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union...
footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He achieved national and state representative honours in the sport and following his retirement became one of the Gladiators in the Australian version of the TV show. McGaw's usual position was at centre. He played his club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks,
Penrith PanthersThe Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Penrith, New South Wales. The Panthers compete in the National Rugby League premiership, the top rugby league football competition in Australasia...
and
South Sydney RabbitohsThe South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-Central Sydney. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the New South Wales capital...
Career after Rugby league
Mark McGaw appeared as "Hammer" on the Australian version of the TV show
Gladiators from 1995 to 1997 as well as modelling for
Lowes MenswearLowes Menswear is an Australian menswear chain established in 1898. They primarily sell workwear and suits, as well as clothes for larger men and schoolwear....
.
Mark McGaw is founder of
Mark McGaw Institute of Sports Science.
Defamation Case
On 2 November 2006 the
Supreme Court of New South WalesThe Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...
awarded former
Gladiator and
rugby leagueRugby league football is a full-contact form of football, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union...
star Mark McGaw $385,000 for a defamatory story
Today TonightToday Tonight is an Australian current affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
broadcast in June 2003. The Supreme Court jury found that the story made two defamatory imputations: that McGaw was "a man of dangerous domestic violence", and that he "bashed his lover so severely that she was hospitalised with horrific injuries".
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