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EXCLUSIVE: Aussie young gun Casey O’Neill’s ‘movielike’ journey to UFC – Wide World of Sports
How COVID-19 diagnosis rocked contract talks
Most athletes work to a point where for one moment, all their dreams and hard work are realised. Australia’s latest UFC debutant Casey O’Neill had it twice in less than a day.
“That whole 24 hours where I first got my contract could be a movie, honestly,” she told Wide World of Sports.
“I was training in the gym, helping a friend train for her fight, then another friend walked in with a phone and said I had to call my manager immediately.”
It was the call she’d been dreaming of for her entire professional…
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