Angela Hill Plans To ‘Destroy’ Ashley Yoder At TUF 25 Finale

In an interview with Bloody Elbow, Angela Hill spoke about her upcoming fight with Ashley Yoder at this Friday’s TUF 25 Finale: Johnson vs. Gaethje. Here are highlights:

On her loss to Jessica Andrade: “The Andrade fight was a good fight for me. I felt like I did some really good things in the fight, but she did just a little bit more than me in each round and that’s how she got the win. That fight showed that I was maybe moving a little too much and that I’ve kinda lost what I was doing when I started out, which was standing my ground and hitting hard; using the ground to get power behind my punches,” assessed Hill. “I feel that if I would have sat down on my strikes a little bit more, I would have been able to do more damage and keep her from rushing in so much. But I do like the fact that I used a lot of movement, I think I just want to start playing around with mixing the two approaches in my future fights, instead of just doing one or the other.”

On how the loss hurts her: “I think the hardest part about going into that fight and not getting the win is, instead of me winning four out of my last five fights, people are remembering me as 0-3 in the UFC – when my story has more depth than that and I definitely have more skills than what that looks like on paper. So it’s definitely a tough spot where I am now. I get way more congratulations for losing that fight than any fight that I won in Invicta. It’s kind of a weird one for me; where I’m in this strange limbo where if people look at my record they say, ‘Oh you lost that fight’, and that’s a totally different perspective from those who saw the Andrade fight – and my Invicta run – who think, ‘She’s definitely on the way up.'”

On fighting Yoder: “She’s so boring! She’s literally giving me nothing to work with when it comes to hyping the fight. But I’ll be there, I’ll make it exciting, even if she doesn’t. I’ll show up and do my job and hopefully get a KO win. I’m going for blood. I’m not going to dance around and point fight. I’m going to try and take her head off, so if you want to see a girl get bloodied up, you should tune in.”