Mention the name Andrew Rabutla to any soccer follower and images of bone crunching tackles are bound to follow.
It is the kind of reputation the Jomo Cosmos defender has earned himself over nearly a decade in the professional ranks.
And no matter how hard he tries, Rabutla will never shake off this image.
Sure he'll tell us that he means no malice with his tackles. But then again when you go around with the nickname "Jaws of Life" - people are going to think you are the kind of player who "tears apart" anything in front of you so as to get the ball - win at all cost.
Jomo Sono, the Cosmos supremo, disagrees.
"I'm the one who gave Andrew that nickname, and it was not because he was a rough or bad tackler. What does the Jaws of Life do? It saves life, doesn't it?" Sono asked this week prior to a
Cosmos training session in southern Johannesburg.
"And I gave Andrew that nickname because he has saved us in a lot of matches with his timely and hard tackles.
I've always relied on him to close down the dangerous players in the opposition teams."
While Cosmos are renowned for their hard tackles, Rabutla says his style of play was not changed after he joined Ezenkosi.
"I've always played like this. When Jomo first saw me we (Rabali Blackpool) were playing them in Thohoyandou and apparently he asked whether I was a foreigner.
He was impressed by the hard way I went into tackles because generally in South Africa players are soft."
Rabutla finds it strange that people call Cosmos rough because "the way we tackle is how it's done overseas. People don't see anything wrong when it's done in England or Italy but when we do it, they complain."
While wishing Serge Djiehoua a "speedy recovery", Rabutla maintains his tackle was not a bad one.
"For me, bad tackles are the ones where you come from behind. Also the ones where the intention is not to win the ball but to stop a player from going forward towards goal. With Djiehoua I went in straight and even got the ball. It was a normal tackle," he said.
He says it hurts him that he's seen as this bad player whereas players who have committed far more worse tackles than him get off without any criticism.
"If my tackle was that bad surely the referee would have punished me? But I didn't even get a booking. The referee is there to protect the player," said "Jaws of Life".
"You know I've never ever ended anybody's career. I know that I've never went into a tackle with the intention of destroying a player.
"I go in with the sole aim of getting the ball."
Sono refuted suggestions he instructs his players to go out and destroy the opposition.
"All I tell them is to go in hard, not to break people's legs. Football's a man's sport and there's no room for being soft," said Sono.
"Anybody who thinks that we are only hard on the opposition must come to our training sessions. Even here, the boys get stuck in."