It wasn't razor-close at all.
Herman won the first round 10-9. He had a nice takedown, made some excellent contact on the G&P, controlled the ground, but still took a few shots from Kendall after standing back up to make sure it couldn't be called a 10-8.
Kendall clearly and decisively won the second round. Herman was gassed halfway through the round from fighting off triangles. He made some effort to fight back into takedowns, but it didn't work. Kendall was picking him apart on the feet and Herman kept getting into clinch and making every effort to get on the ground just to keep him away.
Kendall clearly won the 3rd round. The confusion here comes from giving points to Ed for his near RNC then armbar on kendall. He didn't get the takedown in either of those situations, so he wasn't earning much. The whole first half of the round was Kendall applying precise striking to Herman , and Herman leaning on Kendall to avoid it. Several brutal knees in this round by Kendall. Two good takedowns. And finishing the round in a rear-naked choke that herman was way too gassed to get out of, and basically was hanging on by the skin of his nails.
Clearly a 29-28 fight, hence the unanimous decision. The problem is looking at it like 'This whole fight was a close fight'.
You're right it WAS a close -fight-. Each person was close to winning on multiple occasions. But if you break it down as a judge has to, you come to amore accurate conclusion of who did more to try and win the fight and bring it to a conclusion.
And btw, I'm not trying to flame you, just trying to get you to understand a little bit dude