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History · 2023 · UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington · Irene Aldana vs Karol Rosa
From the tape · 16 Dec 2023

Irene Aldana vs Karol Rosa

UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Irene Aldana beat Karol Rosa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

IA
Red corner IreneAldanaLobo Gym MMA · Guadalajara, Jalisco
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KarolRosaGAEA Project · Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds16 Dec 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Aldana.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Rosa.
15-8
Record
19-8
35
Age
−7 yr28
+4″5' 9"
Height
5' 5"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+412
UFC bouts
8
+57%4/757% of wins
Finishes
0/60% of wins
Lobo Gym MMA
Gym
GAEA Project
Guadalajara, Jalisco
From
Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Irene Aldana30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 75BODY17%5 of 10LEGS7%2 of 3
Karol Rosa45 sig landed
HEAD24%11 of 52BODY4%2 of 2LEGS71%32 of 35
30 of 88
Sig.
strikes
45 of 89
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldana firstDerek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Irene Aldana54 sig landed
HEAD89%48 of 103BODY9%5 of 5LEGS2%1 of 1
Karol Rosa67 sig landed
HEAD55%37 of 73BODY1%1 of 4LEGS43%29 of 31
54 of 109
Sig.
strikes
67 of 108
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 54Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 67Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldana firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Irene Aldana61 sig landed
HEAD84%51 of 98BODY16%10 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
Karol Rosa92 sig landed
HEAD60%55 of 112BODY3%3 of 5LEGS37%34 of 36
61 of 111
Sig.
strikes
92 of 153
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 61Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 92Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldana firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Irene AldanaKarol Rosa
Official totals — Irene Aldana first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28

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 — 20 scored, Irene Aldana first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Aldana · 81%29-28 Rosa · 13%30-27 Aldana · 4%

68 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.

Irene Aldana

0.15takedowns / 15 min
0.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.17 / 15m
0.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.44 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
48%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Karol Rosa

1.17takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's 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.

Irene Aldana↑ +7.5pp
open 54.3%close 61.7%
Karol Rosa↓ −7.5pp
open 45.7%close 38.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Irene Aldana opened at 54.3% and closed at 61.7% (+7.5pp), with Karol Rosa moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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
Irene Aldana-130-18254.3%61.7%+7.5pp
Karol Rosa11015045.7%38.3%−7.5pp
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% · dated 2023-12-17 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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