Well if what you dished out was similar then maybe. So say someone brings a knife and you hit them across the arm with a metal pipe, broke their arm and they dropped the knife , then you would be OK but if you continued to belt the person over the head with the metal pipe after the person was disarmed, as the god lord would have wanted you to, then deep shit time.
In Gaffs case, being annoyed by a player scragging you all match is no excuse for what happened