Sydney Roosters backrower Boyd Cordner is free to face the Warriors on Sunday after beating a striking charge at the NRL judiciary on Wednesday night.

Cordner threw a flurry of punches at Parramatta forward Matt Ryan during the second half of the Roosters’ win on Friday night.

He was hit with a grade-one striking charge by the NRL match review panel on Monday and faced a one-match ban.

Cordner chose to fight his charge after rugby league attracted plenty of negative publicity over Paul Gallen’s supposed lenient one-match ban for punching Nate Myles in State of Origin I.

It was the second good piece of judiciary news for the third-placed Roosters after Sonny Bill Williams took the early plea on a grade-one high tackle on Ryan, also leaving him free to play the New Zealand side.