{"id":65492,"date":"2025-08-13T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65492\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:37:06","slug":"eric-mcconico-thinks-judges-were-astute-in-his-ufc-on-espn-72-win-over-cody-brundage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65492\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric McConico thinks judges were astute in his UFC on ESPN 72 win over Cody Brundage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Eric McConico met the media Saturday after his split decision win over Cody Brundage at UFC on ESPN 72.<\/p>\n<p>McConico (10-3-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) took a pair of 29-28 scores from Brundage (11-7-1 MMA, 5-6-1 UFC) to open up the card at the UFC Apex. The dissenting scorecard in Brundage&#8217;s favor was a 30-27.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After his first UFC win, McConico, who was a 2-1 underdog in the hastily booked fight, said the scorecards took him by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a good 75 (percent confident) because he did take me down,&#8221; McConico said at his post-fight news conference. &#8220;But I just felt like he didn&#8217;t really do anything \u2013 he just laid on me. I&#8217;m happy (the judges) are making that more of an issue. You just can&#8217;t lay on somebody. We&#8217;re in a fist fight, and I think I was bringing the fight to him all three rounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out McConico\u2019s post-fight news conference in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/12\/ufc-espn-72-video-eric-mcconico-judges-right-split-decision\/85624941007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric McConico lauds judges in UFC on ESPN 72 win over Cody Brundage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eric McConico lauds judges in UFC on ESPN 72 win over Cody Brundage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Eric McConico met the media Saturday after his split decision win over Cody Brundage at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,34483,641,41774,638,1152,82,640,30004],"class_list":{"0":"post-65492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cody-brundage","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mcconico","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-split-decision","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-apex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}