Casey O’Neill says her viral submission was pure instinct after getting frustrated with how the fight was going:
"I didn’t actually expect it to go so viral. In the moment, I didn’t realize what I had even done. Honestly, I felt like I kind of blacked out.
I don’t remember even knowing that I was going for that or anything. It just happened in the moment.
It is something I’ve worked on before, but in terms of drilling, not really. It’s just something that I felt in the moment.
I really wanted to show off my striking, and I threw a kick and fell on my ass. I was so angry that I was on my ass and stuck on the bottom.
I was like, ‘Man, I’m just gonna have to pull something off.’ So I just kept trying to throw my legs up and find something, and ended up finding something pretty cool.”