Cody Brundage no longer has a loss on his record from his fight against Mansur Abdul-Malik on the UFC Atlanta fight card in June.
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.
The commission issued a statement you can read below:
“Following 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).
“GAEC 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.”
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.
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.
That didn’t sit well with Brundage, who previously told MMA Fighting that he planned to file an appeal over a loss he didn’t believe he deserved on his record.
“In Georgia’s rules, in their own bi-laws, people will contest some things, they’ll appeal certain decisions based off a judge’s discretion or a referee’s discretion and you’re never going to win an appeal based on someone’s discretion because it’s just their opinion,” Brundage explained back in June. “But 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.
“The foul directly impacted the fight. It wasn’t a foul that didn’t have much impact. It ended the fight and then to score a 30 second round is just insane to me. I don’t really understand it. Another thing is there’s no uniform why how they handle this stuff. They’re just doing shit on the fly. That again, just brings less legitimacy to our sport.”
It turns out the commission agreed with Brundage’s argument and now his loss has been erased and replaced with a majority draw.
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