JRE MMA Show #92 with Angela Hill

Joe Rogan (0:00)

One, two, good. Hello, Angela. I was amazed that you ould get those headphones on. I was wondering.

You got the best afro in the game, for sure. Who's even close?

Angela Hill (0:14)

It condenses.

I mean, Casillas got me beat, though. Alex Casillas, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

He gets crazy. Yeah.

Angela Hill (0:20)

That's my goal. Those are my hair goals, is to get a nice, big, fluffy fur like his.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

When he fights, I always wonder, like, I get that seems like it would be harder to pull out of things. Don't you think?

Angela Hill (0:32)

No, it's actually, it's kind of like, you know, those connecting joints where it's like, it's kind of like a big ball that goes in, but like when you pull it out, it's like...

Joe Rogan (0:43)

It pulls out easier.

Angela Hill (0:44)

It pulls out easier. Yeah. It's kind of like a joint like that. So like, you think you have a good grip, but then the hair, it just like, you know, like it condenses.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Especially like if you put grease in your hair or hair conditioning or anything that makes it extra slippery, right?

Angela Hill (0:58)

Yeah, I guess, but like it's, it's pretty, it's just the fact that it can go small, even though it doesn't look like it. I feel like people think they have a better grip than they do. Like I'm like my, I think my title fight in Invicta, the girl locked on like maybe three or four guillotines. And every time I was just like, you know, like it just like popped out and people kept going, it's deep, it's deep. But like, I swear to God, my Afro gets me out of tight situations.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

It's interesting with women fighting, like there's options. And one of the options is clothes. Like the way you wear your upper, like your top, can have a big impact if you're a grappler.

Angela Hill (1:38)

Yeah, I always felt, well, I guess I don't feel like that anymore because I realized like with all like the costume malfunctions and stuff, it can be a big deal, especially if you're like really packing, you know, but I used to like hate on girls who would fight in shirts. I'm like, come on, man. You're a fighter. Like let your stomach out. Like this is like a fight fight because like things get tangled up and stuff, like especially if the shirt isn't like super tight.

Like even the girl that I'm fighting in Auckland, she has something weird where like I think the other girl was like pulling on her shirt. So like in between the first and second round, they took a shirt off to like, fuck it. This is like kind of messing up your groove.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Well, you get an options, right? It's not like you have to have your midriff exposed, which is kind of interesting because it should be uniform, shouldn't it? I mean, women's MMA is the only place where you can make a choice to be stickier.

If you're a grappler in particular, if you have like a full shirt on, you can definitely hold on to someone better.

Angela Hill (2:41)

Yeah, I think so.

I don't know, I feel like just a boob thing, you know, you can't have tits out, like not as a fighter, like it's okay for the ring card girls to like, you know, walk around to cleavage out. But the fighters, like, I don't know, they're trying to, I guess, make it more of an like, okay, these girls are athletes, so don't stare at the cleavage while they're fighting.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Because you're, you know, basically in your underwear, almost.

Angela Hill (3:12)

Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, in bathing suits.

But I don't know, I always had this joke with like my teammates that I was going to get famous by being like the nip slipper, like, I would use like certain like Muay Thai clinch techniques to just like pop the girls boob out. So I'd always get to fight the popular girls because like they knew, oh, she's fighting Paige Van Zandt, we're going to see some Paige Van Zandt titties, you know?

And I would just like, you know, raise my stock. So I haven't done it though, but I thought about it. Only in training? Only in training. I tried on the guys in the gym, lift the shirt up, oops, sorry.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Has anybody ever done that on purpose in a fight that you know of?

Angela Hill (3:55)

I think the one person I backfired with was, I don't remember who she was fighting, but Lesley Smith's boob popped out once. Yeah, in one of her Invicta fights, and she did not give a fuck.