“The Witch” Meghan O’Neill’s BKFC debut didn’t go the way she’d scripted it. Terri Diamond caught her with a ferocious flurry of uppercuts less than two minutes into the first round, forcing her to take a knee and end the contest at 1:44. The finish was brutal, decisive, and came from a fellow debutant who proved the technical boxing background Diamond carried into bare knuckle carried weight.
But here’s what made O’Neill’s loss feel like anything but a setback: she walked into that Derby ring as the first woman from Northern Ireland to ever compete in the BKFC, and that historical marker became the narrative that shaped everything afterward.