Recap: In this highly contested and pretty tense 3-rounder, Arsonal somehow survives a trio of slip-ups (one in round 1 and a couple in round 2), a heated, but also hilarious back-n-forth with the RBE league owner ARP in the middle round and an aggressive and wordplay-friendly opponent in Showoff who clearly came to win. But while Showoff’s raucous street rhymes and often rapid-fire delivery raps scored here and there, overall his bar profiency was severely lacking, which in turn would benefit Arsonal. And while da Rebel struggled at times with his flow and had quite a bit of subpar bars himself, a spirited and multi-facated bag of disrespectful shiners, shrewd wordplay, righteous darts/punchlines and hard-hitting/witty personals would get him enough points/haymakers to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Arsonal – “Middle of the winter I’m on your porch with my coat off, ‘Knock Knock’ your mother open the door, I open-handed the bitch with a snowball!”
