Name: JRE MMA Show #92 with Angela Hill
Uploaded: 2020-02-18T20:00:07.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #92 with Angela Hill' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-18. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC strawweight fighter Angela Hill.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #92 with Angela Hill' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-18. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC strawweight fighter Angela Hill.

JRE MMA Show #92 with Angela Hill

Three, two, good. Hello, Angela. What's going on? Hi. What's up? That was
amazing you get those headphones on. I was wondering. Yeah. You got the best afro
in the game for sure. Who's even close? It condenses. I mean, Caceres got me
beat, though. Alex Caceres. Yeah, he does. He gets crazy. Yeah. That's my goal.
Those are my hair goals, is to get like a nice big, like fluffy fro like his.
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? 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, it pulls out easier.
It pulls out easier. Yeah, it's kind of like a, like a joint like that. So like,
you think you have a good grip. But then the hair just like, you know, like,
especially like if you put grease in your hair,
or hair conditioning or anything that makes it extra slippery, right? 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.
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.
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 were fighting 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.
Yeah, like, especially if the shirt isn't like super tight. Like, even the girl
that I'm fighting in Auckland, she, 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. So like,
fuck it, this is like, kind of messing up your grooves.
Well, you get an options, right? It's not like there's, 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, right?
If you're a grappler in particular, if you have like a full shirt on, you can
definitely hold on to someone better.
Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I feel like just the boob thing, you know, you
can't have tits out. Like, not in, not as a fighter. Like, it's okay for the
ring card girls to like, you know, walk around the 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, don't stare at the cleavage
while they're fighting.
Yeah, that's a fine line, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Because you're, you know, basically in your underwear almost.
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
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 Nick, the nip slipper.
I would use like certain like Muay Thai clinch techniques to just like pop the
girl's 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.
So you thought about it in training?
I thought about it.
Only in training?
Only in training. I tried on the guys in the gym. Lift the shirt up. Oops.
Sorry.
Has anybody ever done that on purpose in a fight that you know of?
I don't know. I think the one person I backfired with was, I don't remember who
she was fighting, but Leslie Smith's boob popped out once.
Did it really?
Yeah, in one of her Invicta fights and she did not give a fuck.
Oh, she's crazy.
Yeah, she's crazy.
Her ear was hanging off her head in that Jessica I fight.
Oh my God, yeah.
You could see into her head.
Yeah, yeah.
And she was like, don't stop the fight. Don't stop the fight. I was like, this
girl's gangster.
She's insane. I love her. I love her. She's crazy. And she's so like nice and
like such a hippie, you know, outside of that. So it's like a really funny.
What is she doing now? She's still trying to start some MMA union, right?
Yeah, she's still going hard with the union. She's embellished her now. But I
think like the union that she was working on was only for UFC fighters, I
believe.
So I think she's still doing that. I think she's still fighting for the UFC
fighters, even though she's not in the UFC.
Does that, what is, I haven't looked into that. Like, I haven't looked at like,
what do they, what do they want? What are they trying to accomplish? What's not
correct that they want to fix?
Um, I think, um, just any, any grievances that the fighters have in general. So
like healthcare, um, uh, salary, uh, just things that, uh, everyone kind of
agrees on is like not good enough yet in the UFC.
I think those are the things that they're working towards. Um, how does
healthcare work? Are you guys covered in training or are you only covered for
fights?
Um, as far as I know, uh, if you book a fight and you get injured, I think they
cover it, but I think it's also a gray area where like they could not cover it
and they're not legally obligated to fix you.
Um, but I think in the past they have, uh, I'm not sure. I can't think of any,
uh, any examples where they haven't like, uh, you know, taking care of the
medical expenses of, uh, someone who got hurt.
But I know like a lot of times fighters don't claim it in time, like after
fights, or it's like a little nagging injury that becomes a big deal further
down the line.
Um, and it happened in the fight, but they waited too long.
Yeah. Yeah. Either that or just, you know, just wear and tear from training in
general.
Like you can't, I can't go in for like a loose tooth or like, uh, or like a, a
shoulder that I tore in practice if I wasn't getting ready for a fight.
Well, that seems so crazy because you're obviously fighting in the UFC. You
have a long-term contract.
Yeah.
You've been fighting in the UFC for years. If you're training, you're training
to fight in the UFC.
Yeah, exactly. And, um, I think, uh, I think a lot of instances, they still
take care of the fighter, but I know like, if you're like on the lower end, if
you haven't really made a name for yourself yet, um, sometimes, you know, even
if you just don't ask, like you don't get taken care of.
It's not like, it's not in your contract. Once you sign like, oh, I'm going to
fight this many fights. Uh, but there's nothing in there that says if I get
injured after signing this contract, I'm covered medically.
So, um, so yeah, I think that was, that was the main reason I was like, oh,
this is a good idea. Um, just because like, I know so many fighters who book
fights just to get their injuries taken care of, you know? Um, or they, they'll
fight injured and claim an old injury and like, and that's their way of fixing
whatever they broke during training.
So that sucks. It's horrible. It's such a fucking crazy way to make a living
period. Yeah. You know, it's like you're, you're deciding you're going to throw
your bones at someone and try to break their arms and try to rip their legs
apart.
And this, and then you're going to practice that all the time. And then you're
going to hope you don't get hurt in practice to the point where you can't
actually just go do it inside the octagon.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And most of my injuries happen outside of camp because I'm
either training stupid, training with someone I, who, who I shouldn't be
training with, like someone too big or too inexperienced or, um, or I'm just
like fucking around.
Like when I'm fighting someone who's my size, it's a lot less likely that I get
injured. Right. But when I'm throwing my bones, like you said, as somebody who's
way bigger than it's easy, I can hurt my hand punching them, you know, break my,
break my leg or break my toe, like kicking them, you know?
Well, that's for someone like you who fights at 115 pounds, it's even more
difficult, right? Because the lack of people that are your size to train with,
and you're also trained a lot with men and it's, it's crazy because at a
professional level, like you're, you're right there, you know, you just beat
the shit out of Hannah Cyphers. It was a crazy fight.
Thank you.
But that was a big fight for you. Yeah. Like you're, you're in the heat right
now. Yeah. You know, I mean, you're right there. Yeah. So for you, you're, you're,
you know, you're at the top of the heap in this championship realm. Right. And
to train with people that are bigger than you or to take chances like that,
like there's no other sport that would have that. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And it's
like the lack of women as well, you know, because even if I'm training with
like a Bantamweight, uh, if it's a,
woman, like it's not as dangerous as training with like some of the bigger guys,
like the, like guys and girls are kind of like different sizes. Like if I'm, if
I'm training with a guy who fights at 115, he's going to be like four foot tall,
you know? So, so it's, uh, it's like the weight district distribution is
different, but like, I don't know something about, I guess, training with women,
like the strength, the, uh, the force that's coming at you versus the force you're
giving to them. I just feel like,
I feel like it's a lot safer to train with women. Oh, for sure. Yeah. For sure.
But some people think that the opposite is that if you train with men, like say,
if you were training with a bunch of Bantamweight men, yeah, they would be
bigger than you. Yeah. They'd be stronger than you, but you'd get used to that.
Mm-hmm. And then you'd be used to men. And then when you fight with women, they
would seem smaller and weaker.
Yeah. And that's, that was my old like theory. So when I was, uh, at like my
little gym in New York, um, I was only training with guys. Like the girls that
would come in, they weren't at my level.
And that's the same, uh, story that most girls in the UFC have, you know, they
were at the top of their heap. They were like the baddest girl in the gym, you
know, beating up all the other girls and hanging with the guys. And that was me.
So it wasn't until I, uh, got on tough that I realized like everyone has the
same exact background. So everyone's tough because they were training with guys.
And you start to underestimate like how tough a girl's going to be in there.
Like when you're fighting like tooth and nail, like, you know, to the death is
basically like what you're doing in the cage until the ref pulls you off, you
know, and then it's all hugs.
But like, when you're given like a hundred percent in the cage, it feels like
just as strong as a guy, you know? So it's good to like still have those checks
and balances. Like, okay. Like, yeah, maybe she's not as strong as the guys I
train with, but she is going as hard as she can, or she's defending it as hard
as she can. Or, you know, she's taking my punches that I thought like, oh, if I
dropped this guy with this punch, then this girl's going to get dropped too.
And it's not the case. Like she's just as tough or tougher.
So it's, it's like a weird thing where like, you have like, I don't know, uh,
you have different stats, like stacked in some areas that guys don't. And then
they have stats stacked in areas that women don't.
So it's like, it's like if I was, it's like, if I was like a Bantamweight 