Recap: In a battle for the KOTD chain, after being eclipsed by a barrage of short jokes and boastful barbs by champion Pat Stay in the 1st round, Illmaculate ups the ante and adds witty personals, piercing schemes and some fly rebuttals to an already substantive punch game to take the 2nd. That’s before Mac repeats the same formula of slick wordplay with edgy personals and bouyant punches to edge an opponent who while still competitive through the rest of the battle, for the most part ditched the humor and personals in the latter rounds for steely pontifications and lyrical darts that while more condensed and solid throughout, couldn’t quite match Illmac’s more well honed polemics in the deciding 3rd.
Verdict: Illmaculate (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Illmaculate – “That Ed Hardy belt style of yours I’m way beyond, say I’m wrong, you are one Affliction shirt away from being a walking Jager bomb!”
