Cody Brundage not has a loss on his document from his battle towards Mansur Abdul-Malik on the UFC Atlanta battle card in June.
The Georgia Athletic and Leisure Fee finally voted to overturn the consequence from a technical resolution to a majority draw as confirmed to MMA Combating on Wednesday.
The fee issued a press release you’ll be able to learn beneath:
“Following an attraction listening to from Cody Brundage, the GAEC has overturned the result from the June 14th, 2025, occasion from a Unanimous Determination loss (29-28, 29-28, 30-27) to a Majority Draw (19-19, 19-19, 18-20).
“GAEC Rule 85-3-.16(h) states that no incomplete spherical will probably be scored. The third spherical was scored the night time of the battle and the scored have been calculated. Upon evaluate of the purposes of our guidelines, the states Legal professional Basic in our assembly at present stated the GAEC rule 85-3-.16 would supersede the ABC rule and subsequently the spherical can’t be counted.”
The battle in query got here to an finish after an unintentional conflict of heads led to a ending sequence the place Abdul-Malik was initially declared the winner. Replays confirmed that the unintentional head butt is what dropped Brundage to the canvas moderately than authorized strikes however the bout was already stopped simply moments into the third spherical.
Relatively than declare a no-contest, the referee determined to ship the battle to the scorecards have been Abdul-Malik received a technical resolution with all three rounds being scored.
That didn’t sit properly with Brundage, who beforehand informed MMA Combating that he deliberate to file an attraction over a loss he didn’t imagine he deserved on his document.
“In Georgia’s guidelines, in their very own bi-laws, folks will contest some issues, they’ll attraction sure selections based mostly off a decide’s discretion or a referee’s discretion and also you’re by no means going to win an attraction based mostly on somebody’s discretion as a result of it’s simply their opinion,” Brundage defined again in June. “But it surely says within the Georgia bi-laws in the best way they do MMA there, they won’t rating unfinished rounds. They scored the third spherical fully towards their bi-laws. So me and my workforce filed an attraction.
“The foul instantly impacted the battle. It wasn’t a foul that didn’t have a lot impression. It ended the battle after which to attain a 30 second spherical is simply insane to me. I don’t actually perceive it. One other factor is there’s no uniform why how they deal with these things. They’re simply doing shit on the fly. That once more, simply brings much less legitimacy to our sport.”
It seems the fee agreed with Brundage’s argument and now his loss has been erased and changed with a majority draw.
