If I had not been fast on my feet and his asst coach had not grabbed him, I would have been seriously hurt. Where I grew up, you learned to be fast or accepted that you were going to get beat up all the time.
When I saw him coming, my reflexes kicked in and I was moving away when he "bumped" me. If I had not been moving, I would have been on the ground. I knew of him and he had the rep of being a hothead.