Eddie Alvarez’s recent disqualification loss to Iuri Lapicus is no more.
MMA Fighting confirmed with ONE Championship officials that Alvarez’s DQ from his lightweight bout opposite Lapicus at the April 7 ONE on TNT event has been overturned to a no-contest.
The decision was unanimously made by a panel of 15 independent officials, as well as ONE personnel, judges, and referees, who determined that referee Justin Brown made “a procedural misstep” in disqualifying Alvarez rather than first issuing a warning for illegal blows to the back of the head.
ONE’s decision to change the result was first reported by ESPN.