Took me 3 hours to count every significant strike landed in every round. Watched all the exchanges in real time and in slowmotion, most of them multiple times to make sure I didnt miss anything. To count as a significant strike, the impact of the strike had to be clearly visible and/or the sound of the punch/strike landing had to be clear. I can confidently say the official stats at fightmatrix are way off. The margin of error here is probably + - 2 strikes for each fighter/round.
Here it is:
Round 1:
Aldo 10
Edgar 14
Fightmatrix: Aldo 14, Edgar 14
Those 4 extra strikes for Aldo just doesnt exist. You would literally have to count every strike that even touched Edgar as a sig.strike for Aldo, and not do the same for Edgar.
Round 2:
Aldo 16
Edgar 15
Fightmatrix: Aldo 14, Edgar 14
Ok.
Round 3:
Aldo 10
Edgar 17
Fightmatrix: Aldo 17, Edgar 21
Inexcusable job from official stats. There is no way there was that many even relatively decent shots to count as sig.strikes. It seems a lot of the strikes that actually missed or barely touched the opponent were counted as sig.strikes.
Round 4:
Aldo 16
Edgar 15
Fightmatrix: Aldo 16, Edgar 20
Round 5
Aldo 11
Edgar 11
Fightmatrix: Aldo 19, Edgar 10
Conclusion: Edgar won at least rounds 1 and 3 and the rest of the rounds were close aswell. You could argue Edgar won the fight and vice versa.
This was possibly the most biased commentary Ive ever heard from Rogan, and it seemed to fool almost all the fans, the media and the Fightmatrix staff aswell. Edgar clipped Aldo multiple times with hard shots and every round of the fight was competitive and close. Rogan made it sound like Aldo dominated the fight, and every strike Aldo landed was something amazing and that Edgar didnt have any power in his punches (or kicks) even when you could clearly see Aldos skull swinging hard from the impact of Edgar`s punches.
I really hope Rogan would just go away. He is ruining the fights too often for me to enjoy the commentary.