Wigan thumped rivals Warrington in Las Vegas which broke new floor as the primary Betfred Tremendous League sport to be performed in the USA.
The historic encounter on the Allegiant Stadium noticed Matt Peet’s defending champions go 24-0 up at half-time after tries from Tyler Dupree, Abbas Miski, Bevan French and Harry Smith.
The Warriors added additional scores after the break by means of Jai Discipline, Jake Wardle and Luke Thompson, with Adam Keighran changing all seven tries to make it 42-0 earlier than the hour mark.
Warrington grabbed comfort tries by means of Arron Lindop, James Harrison, Matt Dufty and Matty Ashton whereas Liam Marshall scored late on for Wigan and Keighran ended with eight objectives.
For Wolves boss Sam Burgess, whose arrival in Las Vegas earlier this week was delayed by visa problems, this was an enormous disappointment.
It was his group’s first defeat of the season as Wigan, final season’s quadruple winners, backed up their 46-4 victory at Hull FC final week with one other enormous victory.
Round 10,000 English followers have been within the crowd for the primary a part of a quadruple header involving two NRL fixtures and ladies’s Check match between England and the Australia Jillaroos.
Contained in the opening exchanges, an incident involving Warrington’s Lachlan Fitzgibbon and Warriors prop Liam Byrne led to a inexperienced card.
Fitzgibbon was caught late and damage within the problem earlier than referee Chris Kendall positioned the incident on report.
Warrington thought that they had opened the scoring when captain George Williams despatched a excessive, hanging kick contained in the left channel for Toby King to the touch down earlier than Kendall signalled a strive, though the rating was reviewed by video referee Liam Moore.
Moore deemed that King had stripped the ball from Keighran and a penalty was awarded to Wigan, who went shut themselves moments later when Marshall dived over to attain within the left nook.
Kendall awarded a strive earlier than going to the video referee, who chalked it off for the winger dropping the ball as he dived over.
However Wigan opened the scoring within the seventeenth minute when Dupree went over from shut vary earlier than Miski’s acrobatic end noticed him dive over in the appropriate nook six minutes later.
Within the twenty eighth minute, the talismanic French discovered area to go over and the Warriors had their fourth shortly earlier than half-time.
Smith swapped passes beautifully with half-back associate French to cross the road and Keighran’s fourth objective made it 24-0.
The procession continued after the break when Marshall’s neat move despatched Discipline racing over and check out quantity six got here when Wardle touched down after high quality work from the mercurial French.
Thompson added quantity seven within the 54th minute after extra stylish play from French and Keighran’s conversion stretched the result in 42-0.
Warrington have been shocked, however they got here again when Lindop touched down a kick from Williams after which Harrison went over from shut vary earlier than Dufty crossed, with Josh Thewlis changing all three scores.
Marshall went over within the left nook and Keighran kicked his eight conversion from as many makes an attempt, earlier than Ashton scored an outstanding long-range interception effort transformed by Thewlis.
