Gazir Sets Guinness Record With 197 Rap Battle Wins In 12 Hours

Gazir earned a Guinness World Records title after 200 freestyle battles, completing a challenge with four four-minute rest breaks. He finished with 197 wins and three losses.

The November 7 event at Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura in Gijón, Spain, gave him the record for the most rap battles contested in 12 hours, according to EFE.

To complete the challenge, Gazir needed at least 190 wins, leaving room for 10 defeats. His final score put him seven victories above that target, with a 98.5 percent win rate across the day.

The format also explains why 200 battles meant facing 250 opponents. He had 150 one-on-one contests and another 50 against two MCs at once. Those matchups were split into 10 blocks, each containing 20 battles.

Gazir had described the appeal in a pre-event EFE interview.

“There are skills in my freestyle I don’t have time to show in four battles,” he said, translated from Spanish.

A speech therapist, singing teacher, physical trainer, nutritionist and psychologist helped him prepare for the attempt.

The basic format had MCs trading four-bar turns, with six turns per side.

Judges had to pick a winner without an extra tiebreak round, and the schedule left 20 seconds to move from one battle to the next.

The longer breaks came after every 40 battles: four four-minute pauses. Hosts, DJs and judges rotated during those stops, while Gazir remained the only competitor required to complete the full run.

Babi, Skone and Bnet accounted for his three defeats.

“My job is to ensure each battle is legal,” the Guinness adjudicator told EFE during the event, translated from Spanish.

The audience helped choose the last obstacle.

Voting opened October 21 to select Gazir’s final opponent, and fans picked Mexican MC Aczino, whose three international Red Bull Batalla championships came in 2017, 2021 and 2022.

That last title had come at Gazir’s expense in the 2022 international final in Mexico City. Four years later, Aczino faced him in battle 200, in a lineup that placed a national champion or international podium finisher at the end of each block.