It's quite a compliment when a rugged Aussie would select you to be his tag-team partner if a brawl should break out.

Even more so when you are a young Chinese lad and a little on the vertically-challenged side.

However, Tom Day, one of the Beijing Bombers leading players, had no hesitation when the Aussie Rules club's newsletter, Barf Time, recently asked who he would want to back him up in a backstreet Sanlitun stoush.