Rex Hunt wields a GARDEN TOOL in road rage incident in Melbourne

Legendary footy commentator and TV fisherman Rex Hunt has been involved in an ugly road rage incident in which he was punched by another man, before grabbing a  garden fork and pursuing the man while calling out ‘do you wanna die’.

Dashcam footage showed Hunt standing in the road in the upmarket Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris after a collision with another driver, who drove away from the scene.

Having got back in his vehicle and tracked down the other car, Hunt and the man could be seen arguing in footage from a dashcam from a third vehicle which had followed the pair.

The other motorist then threw a punch before running away from Hunt, who went to the back of his car and took out a garden fork and followed.

Out of shot of the dashcam, Hunt could be heard twice saying ‘do you want to die?’ while the female driver of the third vehicle implored both men to calm down.

The incident comes soon after Hunt made headlines by decrying Channel Seven’s decision to replace AFL great Wayne Carey as a commentator on its showpiece Friday night games in favour of AFLW star Daisy Pearce.

Hunt said in a Facebook exchange that the person at Seven who made that decision was ‘forced into such a weak-gutted sit-down-and-piss decision by pressure to have equal genders everywhere’.

The clash also echoed a confrontation Hunt and his son Matthew had with  a gang of up to 15 youths in Byron Bay back in 2005. 

The two men were set upon when leaving a pub, and Hunt received cuts and bruises to the head. 

Hunt was a very high-profile football commentator and host of a national TV fishing program in the 1990s and early 2000s.