{"id":16767,"date":"2025-07-23T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16767\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:01:08","slug":"cody-brundage-loss-to-mansur-abdul-malik-overturned-by-georgia-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16767\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Brundage loss to Mansur Abdul-Malik overturned by Georgia commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cody Brundage<\/a> no longer has a loss on his record from his fight against Mansur Abdul-Malik<\/a> on the UFC Atlanta<\/a> fight card in June.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission ultimately voted to overturn the result from a technical decision to a majority draw as confirmed to MMA Fighting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The commission issued a statement you can read below:<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing an appeal hearing from Cody Brundage, the GAEC has overturned the outcome from the June 14th, 2025, event from a Unanimous Decision loss (29-28, 29-28, 30-27) to a Majority Draw (19-19, 19-19, 18-20). <\/p>\n

\u201cGAEC Rule 85-3-.16(h) states that no incomplete round will be scored. The third round was scored the night of the fight and the scored were calculated. Upon review of the applications of our rules, the states Attorney General in our meeting today said the GAEC rule 85-3-.16 would supersede the ABC rule and therefore the round cannot be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight in question came to an end after an accidental clash of heads led to a finishing sequence where Abdul-Malik was initially declared the winner. Replays showed that the accidental head butt is what dropped Brundage to the canvas rather than legal strikes but the bout was already stopped just moments into the third round.<\/p>\n

Rather than declare a no-contest, the referee decided to send the fight to the scorecards were Abdul-Malik won a technical decision with all three rounds being scored. <\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t sit well with Brundage, who previously told MMA Fighting that he planned to file an appeal <\/a>over a loss he didn\u2019t believe he deserved on his record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Georgia\u2019s rules, in their own bi-laws, people will contest some things, they\u2019ll appeal certain decisions based off a judge\u2019s discretion or a referee\u2019s discretion and you\u2019re never going to win an appeal based on someone\u2019s discretion because it\u2019s just their opinion,\u201d Brundage explained back in June. \u201cBut it says in the Georgia bi-laws in the way they do MMA there, they will not score unfinished rounds. They scored the third round completely against their bi-laws. So me and my team filed an appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe foul directly impacted the fight. It wasn\u2019t a foul that didn\u2019t have much impact. It ended the fight and then to score a 30 second round is just insane to me. I don\u2019t really understand it. Another thing is there\u2019s no uniform why how they handle this stuff. They\u2019re just doing shit on the fly. That again, just brings less legitimacy to our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

It turns out the commission agreed with Brundage\u2019s argument and now his loss has been erased and replaced with a majority draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Brundage no longer has a loss on his record from his fight against Mansur Abdul-Malik on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[18016,64,63,18014,7504,18013,6012,786,585,6782,1347,6010,18017,18015,785,18018,85,319,787,1396],"class_list":["post-16767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abdul","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brundage","tag-by","tag-cody","tag-commission","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-georgia","tag-latest-news","tag-loss","tag-malik","tag-mansur","tag-mma","tag-overturned","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}