Angela Hill really played herself

[Ghostoftheville]

Kind of off topic, but I think some ESPN bigwigs really tried to give her a push a while ago with the ‘black woman making history’ angle. They kept trying to build her up as a contender. Meanwhile, she’s always been pretty average. In a sport where the female goat is a South American lesbian, and there’s plenty of black goats that are beloved by the fans, I fail to see why anyone would or should care about this stuff. Didn’t watch the fight tho lmao.

Her podcast with Penne was getting some attention, which got her on Rogan and a few other spots. Anybody that shows some personality is going to get a push.

 

[RampageFaction]

You would think that her camp would identify this as a deficiency and attempt to make adjustments or improve...?

Throughout that whole card I found myself asking similar questions about various fighters. Fighters who weren’t properly cutting off the cage, not checking kicks, no head movement, only using one hand...Din Thomas was exposing all of them and their coaches. How do you get to this level and make such fundamental mistakes. My guess is fighters are stubborn and if it worked for them in the past, they just keep doing it.

 

[dogsdonutsdragons]

Not that I expect many of you to give a shit about what's happening in WMMA but this was the perfect example of trash talking gone wrong.

Angela (despite being a journeywoman at best) is talking big shit about Tecia, accusing her of using PEDs, basically saying she only lost to Tecia the first time because it was pre-USADA.

Then you go out and get dominated and lose even more convincingly the second time post-USADA, so she really made herself look stupid.

Why would you do that? You set yourself up for a must-win and then you lose and make yourself look bad.

It sounds like Angela had it confirmed by someone who knows Torres she used to dope. That’s all takes. If that’s the case she still has benefits from her past cycles .

 

[Johnnny]

Why would you do that? You set yourself up for a must-win and then you lose and make yourself look bad.

There is no such thing as a must-win fight in WMMA.

Plenty of highly-ranked WMMA fighters have Artem-esque records (near .500 overall and well below .500 in the UFC).

 

[Deezer]

Best thing she ever did was call Rogan racist

 

[Gilday]

I made a lot of money on this fight and also put it in all my parlays. Tecia has been fighting absolute killers and that's why she has so many losses while Angela has only been winning against unranked girls and goes to split decision every time she steps up. Their fights against Michelle Waterson should show the difference in skill between the 2.

When you see she had 4 losses in a row it looks bad, but when you realise 3 of them became champions and the other is a promising contender it doesn't seem as bad. I'm not sure Tecia ever gets to a title shot but she'll be in the top 10 as long as she wants to be.

 

[Xandros476]

Has Tecia improved a bit? Who should she fight next? Nina or Gadelha? What are her chances against one of them?

Well Claudia has looked like shit for a while., so I’d give Tecia a decent chance against her

 

[TKing]

Hill made zero adjustments, Tecia threw the exact same combos all fight, same side kick, worked every time. Bad performance for sure.

 

[koquerelle]

This thread just made me remember, what happened to the guy obsessed with WMMA that only posted about women fights? Sherdog must’ve finally broken him

the dummy from Edmonton?

 

[Livingenergy]

Well Claudia has looked like shit for a while., so I’d give Tecia a decent chance against her

She's washed up but she's still a bit better than Tecia, no??

 

[koquerelle]

This thread just made me remember, what happened to the guy obsessed with WMMA that only posted about women fights? Sherdog must’ve finally broken him

GiSP
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/cris-cyborg-vs-felicia-spencer-is-a-total-mismatch.3977065/

 

[The XL]

Was surprised at the line being even. Torres has only lost to world champions and Hill has competitive fights with glorified soccer moms.

 

[Sausage_Carius]

It sounds like Angela had it confirmed by someone who knows Torres she used to dope. That’s all takes. If that’s the case she still has benefits from her past cycles .

I guarantee you practically none of them ever stopped. Not for long anyway. The huge drop off in performance across the board by many top fighters was more of a result of having to adjust to the new system and some like Vitor not being able to find anything that would maintain his past results. He was genetically played out.

Within a relatively short time USADA was gamed as fuck.

Now you have athletes micro dosing and they have to be complete morons or make enormous mistakes with their cycles to get caught. You don't even need bioidentical hgh or test to avoid getting caught. Just don't be a careless idiot like Jones.

All those tests for EPO on TJ's past samples that USADA cleared him on, that everybody brings up as some sort of vindication, don't mean dick when the window for catching it in a test can be measured in hours, at the amounts they are dosing, at the very most.

 

[Poatan Power]

Not that I expect many of you to give a shit about what's happening in WMMA but this was the perfect example of trash talking gone wrong.

Angela (despite being a journeywoman at best) is talking big shit about Tecia, accusing her of using PEDs, basically saying she only lost to Tecia the first time because it was pre-USADA.

Then you go out and get dominated and lose even more convincingly the second time post-USADA, so she really made herself look stupid.

Why would you do that? You set yourself up for a must-win and then you lose and make yourself look bad.

Honestly, every win is a must win. May as well shoot your shot. And, both can be true. She may have lost the first time because there was no USADA, and now she lost this time because her opponent got significantly better over time than she did.

 

[electricfuneral]

Really dissapointing. Not just the loss but bad performance. Tecia made her look amateur.

Agreed. Angela had an awful game plan too. Kept trying to initiate grappling transitions despite being a bad grappler

 

[Better Every Day]

@Better Every Day ?

I've posted about men's fights, and started threads about male fighters.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Really dissapointing. Not just the loss but bad performance. Tecia made her look amateur.

Hill is popular, and deservedly so. She fights often, has worked sometimes as an analyst, and is energetic and likable. But she isn't a great fighter and never has been. She's a journeyman who is near the end of her career. Hill is 8-10 in the UFC, and her much touted resurgence is mostly hype generated by her fighting so frequently.

To her credit though, Hill isn't mainly beating up on girls with losing records. I think most or all of her wins have at least .500 win rate. And Moroz and Lookboonmee are good wins.

 

[mmamxfan]

I made a lot of money on this fight and also put it in all my parlays. Tecia has been fighting absolute killers and that's why she has so many losses while Angela has only been winning against unranked girls and goes to split decision every time she steps up. Their fights against Michelle Waterson should show the difference in skill between the 2.

"been fighting absolute killers" referring to wmma. Lol

 

[mmamxfan]

Hill is popular, and deservedly so. She fights often, has worked sometimes as an analyst, and is energetic and likable. But she isn't a great fighter and never has been. She's a journeyman who is near the end of her career. Hill is 8-10 in the UFC, and her much touted resurgence is mostly hype generated by her fighting so frequently.

To her credit though, Hill isn't mainly beating up on girls with losing records. I think most or all of her wins have at least .500 win rate. And Moroz and Lookboonmee are good wins.

The Paul Felder of WMMA

 

[Street Bishop]

Cut her bum ass