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She’s landed on the wrong side of a split decision verdict four times and been handed several other tough-to-swallow setbacks on the scorecards, as well, perpetually getting close to breaking through to the top tier of the weight class only to come up short against one of the division’s elite, including Jessica Andrade, Yan Xiaonan, Claudia Gadelha, Michelle Waterson-Gomez, Amanda Lemos, Virna Jandiroba, Mackenzie Dern, and Tabatha Ricci.
“I think the only time I really kick myself is when I see what these people end up doing, because they end up doing things that I want to do,” Hill said in regard to the untimely setbacks that have checkered her career. “I wanted that rematch with Yan Xiaonan, which is another fight I think I won, and I think my career has been marred with all these close decisions — or obvious decisions that somehow went the other way to the point where it has become meme-able — and I don’t want that to be the thing I’m known for: I don’t want to be the person who got robbed all the time.
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“If I could take it out of the judges’ hands, that would be great, but, at the same time, I’m one of the smaller strawweights,” she added. “It’s tough to get those knockouts, so I’ve been focusing a lot more on my grappling recently, and I think that has gotten me a lot closer to getting those consistent wins, getting in a position where I can be on top and make it obvious.
“I’m hoping not to have to go to a decision these next few fights, especially with it being towards the end of my career, because I don’t trust the judges; I don’t know if they see the strikes I throw. But it’s part of the game that I have to deal with, I chose this life, and I’m trying to make the best of it that I can.”
