Angela Hill has been on a tear in Invicta FC, winning four in a row and the promotion’s title. She fights the #5 Jessica Andrade on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 104. if she wins, she could get a title shot. However, there is another women’s strawweight fight on the card – #12 ranked Alexa Grasso vs. the unranked Felice Herrig, who is 2-2 the last four years.

Grasso vs. Herrig is the co-main, while Andrade vs. Hill is sixth on the 12-fight card. Hill’s explanation is that the UFC actually has two women’s divisions, with a different set of rules for the most, ummm, mediagenic fighters.

I think there’s definitely two different weight classes in the strawweight division, said Hill during a recent opinion on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMA Fighting. There’s a few floaters, there’s a few people who are in both. There are people who are there to fight and look professional when they fight and then there’s the people who are there to look cute. I think Felice and Grasso actually float between both groups. But the ones that are there to mainly look cute, they get top billing.

Everyone knows who’s in those categories. Look at VanZant. She headlined maybe two or three events. And she’s lost to the same people that I’ve lost to. It’s strange that you would keep headlining someone unless that was going on. There’s two different types. They’re bringing in one to bring the eyes in, but then the other to still look like a legitimate weight class.

I think I can float between both. I think I’m pretty cute, too. But you know, I’m gonna get the tougher fights as opposed to someone like VanZant, someone like Curran, the people that are there to just bring in eyes and make the sport popular by saying, ‘Oh look, she’s cute and she’s a fighter, too — you’d never guess!’

I’m not mad that I’m not co-main event, said Hill. I think it would have made sense for my fight to be co-main event, simply because I’m fighting the No. 5-ranked strawweight who everyone is saying … she’s next in line for Joanna.

Herrig has emerged as something like the poster child for using sex appeal to promote a fight career. She argues convincingly that using sex appeal in WMMA is smart, and that if you can’t back it up, you get beaten up until you quit.

“I you’re not your biggest promoter then you will get left behind and not even get the opportunity for your skills to be seen,” she wrote on The UnderGround. “Its called marketing and drawing attention so people will watch you fight, promotors will book you and sponsors will pay you so you can actually make a living. If you don’t understand the career of an athlete and the importance of marketing then god help you.”

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