Here's the fight video of Irene Aldana vs Karol Rosa from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight is at Bantamweight. Both fighters are similar. They are primarily strikers. So I thought the fight would be close. Irene is 35 years old. She trains at Lobo Gym in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her teammate is Alexa Grasso and her brother Christian Grasso is the coach. Irene is 7-5 in the UFC. She is not a dominant fighter. She usually wins by decision. And she looked really bad in her title shot vs Amanda Nunes. Karol is 28 years old from Brazil. She trains at PRVT in Las Vegas. So Jessica Andrade is her teammate. Karol is 6-2 in the UFC and she usually wins by decision too. Karol got the edge in round one mostly with leg kicks. And she won the round 10-9. But she wasn't going to get a finish with leg kicks. And between rounds Christian Grasso told Irene to attack the body and that should open things up. That was excellent strategy because in the other two rounds, Irene was much better and won both rounds 10-9. Karol didn't have an answer for that strategy. So it turned into a firefight because neither fighter is much of a finisher. All three judges scored the fight 29-28 for Irene and both fighters got $50, 000 bonuses for Fight of the Night. It was really good matchmaking and I was not surprised the fight was like that. I just thought that Karol needed to make adjustments between rounds two and three and she didn't. So does this get Irene back in the title picture? Well, the problem is she was so bad in that fight, I don't think the UFC would give her another title shot unless she could show dominance over someone really good. She's not that kind of fighter. She wins close fights. Remember she only got a title shot in the first place because Julianna Pena got hurt. She won't be the UFC's first choice unless she shows them something new. Enjoy the video!
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