Recap: A battle (“And since Magic want to know who’s a new killer”) long in the waiting, B-Magic versus Ave finally takes place on the Smack Volume 1 card and for one round anyway, lives up to the hype with Magic vociferously spitting his usual assortment of spitfire punchlines and an also punch-heavy Ave delivering the goods on stinging set-ups, flexing wordplay and utter mayhem. With a more potent Magic taking an altogether spitfire round 1, the feeling was that we were in for a classic battle. But then early into his 2nd round, Magic started slipping up and despite eventually getting back his flow, his pen game was never quite able to get back to top-notch form. And with Magic continuing to slip-up while delivering mostly pedestrian punches in the 3rd, a way more consistent with his flow Ave just kept his handle up, dishing some fire braggadocio lines, sizzling name flips and personals to go along with a standard palette of bedlam to take the latter two rounds and get the win.
Verdict: Ave (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ave – “So go extra, that’s gonna get the big toast waving, a shell fed once the joint pulled and this Loc ate it [dislocated]!”
