The Pilipino men’s basketball team had been waiting a long time to exact revenge for Jeff Horn’s “disgraceful sportsmanship” - 12 months to the day to be exact.

“He thinks he can beat Manny. He’s dreaming. That’s bad sportsmanship” said Ernesto Torres, despite being one of the 100 million Filipinos to watch The Hornet win a unanimous decision on 2nd July 2017 via pay-per-view.

Regardless, a year on and still smarting from the Aussie School Teacher’s miraculous victory, a basketball World Cup qualifier between the Boomers and the Pacmen was the scene of their retaliation.

A elbow from Australia's Daniel Kickert was like the bell to start the round, and then things kicked off – literally in Thon Maker’s case.

“He was like Liu Kang” said one Australian spectator, who wished to remain anonymous, in regards to Maker’s fly kick that cleaned the court.

It was in response to the Philippine’s bench clearing, attacking any yellow singlet in sight.

A minute later, furniture had been thrown and the whole thing better resembled a WWE Royal Rumble than a game of hoops. By the time the dust settled, there were 13 ejections, and just five versus three on the court to play it out.

“I probably thought it was two shots at most” said fired up Pilipino usher Willy Dos Santos, who threw a chair into Australian guard Nathan Sobey.

“Anyway, we won the fight. Nine ejections to four”.

A Pilipino twitter user also scored the brawl in his countries favour saying “Aussie players punch like Jeff Horn”.

While that might be construed as a compliment – as Horn clearly won the fight – the Twitter expert responded by saying “But not that convincing” – and the only knockout blow of the night was delivered.