Golden Axe Death Adder glitch

I was messing around on Ax and this glitch happened. Looks the same as the throwing glitch I first saw on CheeseStringXX's video here • Golden axe Sega Genesi... .
However this time I have no idea how it was triggered, as I didn't throw any enemies in the whole stage. Also, Death Adder seemed in a pretty big rush to get away. He left the screen much faster than enemies usually walk off screen after the throw glitch.
Also this wasn't on emulator, it was my JVC X'Eye on the 6 Pak cartridge. I think if this can be reproduced consistently it has potential to shave some time off the current speedrun strategy.