Gina Carano has finally revealed the story behind one of the most iconic viral moments in MMA history.
During her time as a star in Strikeforce, Carano was caught on camera in the crowd delivering a playful lip-bite…
An expression that quickly spread across the internet and has lived on for years in gifs and memes.
Now, ahead of her upcoming return fight against Ronda Rousey on May 16, Carano shared what was really going on in that moment:
I don’t smoke weed, but I had smoked weed [that night]. And I was just living in my head.
According to her, the situation was made even stranger by the repeated attention from the camera crew:
I don’t know. The cameraman just kept on putting (the camera on me) and I thought it was in my head because I was a little bit stoned…
It was just in my head, I was like: “Is this guy putting the camera on me a lot or am I just being super paranoid?”
As it turns out, the camera was on her frequently – and the pressure to act normal led to the now-famous reaction:
It turns out he was putting the camera on me a lot, so what was going through my head, just like: “Act normal. Act normal”, and that happens.
So, it was a total stoner moment.
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