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History · 2013 · UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar · Jose Aldo vs Frankie Edgar
From the tape · 2 Feb 2013

Jose Aldo vs Frankie Edgar

UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jose Aldo beat Frankie Edgar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner JoseAldoNova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
FE
Blue corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
Featherweight Title5 rounds2 Feb 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 27 points more takedown defence than Edgar.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
32-10
Record
23-11-1
−5 yr26
Age
31
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+1013
1/333% of wins
Finishes
3/933% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Toms River, New Jersey
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jose Aldo21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%3 of 3
Frankie Edgar5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 23BODY20%1 of 6LEGS40%2 of 5
21 of 42
Sig.
strikes
5 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Jeff Collins10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jose Aldo19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 50BODY0%0 of 1LEGS21%4 of 4
Frankie Edgar7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 43BODY29%2 of 5LEGS29%2 of 3
19 of 55
Sig.
strikes
7 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:04
Control
0:10
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Jeff Collins10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jose Aldo15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 47BODY0%0 of 2LEGS7%1 of 2
Frankie Edgar19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 46BODY21%4 of 6LEGS37%7 of 7
15 of 51
Sig.
strikes
19 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Jeff Collins10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jose Aldo7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 44BODY29%2 of 4LEGS14%1 of 1
Frankie Edgar11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 44BODY9%1 of 3LEGS64%7 of 8
7 of 49
Sig.
strikes
11 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Jeff Collins9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jose Aldo14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 55BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 58BODY33%6 of 9LEGS22%4 of 6
14 of 56
Sig.
strikes
18 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Jeff Collins9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Jose AldoFrankie Edgar
Official totals — Jose Aldo first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide49–46
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Jose Aldo first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
Fight Metric.com49–46
MM AWeekly.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com48–47
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com48–47
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Edgar · 33%49-46 Aldo · 30%48-47 Aldo · 24%49-47 Aldo · 2%

442 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Jose Aldo

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.29 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.39 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
31%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Jose Aldo→ no move
open 62.8%close 63.0%
Frankie Edgar→ no move
open 37.2%close 37.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jose Aldo opened at 62.8% and closed at 63.0% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Jose Aldo-195-18062.8%63.0%+0.2pp
Frankie Edgar15516537.2%37.0%−0.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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