Spanish freestyle rapper Gazir has earned a Guinness World Records title after winning 197 of 200 freestyle battles in 12 hours, completing a challenge that required at least 190 wins and allowed no more than 10 defeats. The event, held on 7 November 2026 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.
Gazir finished with 197 wins and three losses, taking four extended breaks of four minutes each during the 12-hour marathon. The voting to select his final opponent had opened on 21 October, and fans picked Mexican MC Aczino, whose three international Red Bull Batalla championships came in 2017, 2021 and 2022.
Twelve hours, two hundred opponents
The scale of the challenge is hard to grasp. Two hundred freestyle battles in 12 hours means a new opponent roughly every three and a half minutes, with only four four-minute breaks in the entire day. Each battle is an improvised contest — no prepared lyrics, no second takes, just two rappers trading verses in front of a crowd and a panel of judges.
Gazir needed at least 190 wins to earn the record, leaving room for 10 defeats. He lost three. The margin — seven wins above the minimum — is comfortable, but it is also a measure of how hard the challenge was: even one of the best freestyle rappers in the world lost three times in 12 hours, against opponents who had nothing to lose and everything to gain by beating him.
A record with a history
Freestyle rap battles have a long history in Spain and Latin America, and the Red Bull Batalla competition is the biggest stage in the sport. Gazir’s final opponent, Aczino, is one of the most decorated battlers in the world, with three international Red Bull Batalla titles. The choice of Aczino as the final opponent was made by fans, who voted for him from 21 October — a detail that turned the last battle into a headline event in its own right.
The record was reported by AllHipHop on 10 November 2026, citing EFE’s account of the event. It is the latest in a run of Guinness records reported this month, from a 14,388-mile flight to a 468-glass dance — but it is the only one that required winning 197 times in a single day to earn it.
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Sources: AllHipHop, 10 Nov 2026; EFE; Red Bull, Nov 2026.
