The All Blacks have won 197 tests and lost just 37 during the professional era. Photo / Brett Phibbs The most phenomenal achievement of the All Blacks has been to maintain their primacy once the game went professional. Conventional wisdom of the day went something like this: the All Blacks were, in terms of attitude and preparation, a professional team in an amateur era and once the game went fully professional, the rest of the world would quickly catch up.