LAS VEGAS – Chris Padilla has been riding high for a minute now, and after this past Saturday he hopes the momentum keeps on going. Padilla (14-6 MMA, 1-0 UFC) made his short-notice UFC debut on the prelims against James Llontop (14-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at UFC on ESPN 55 and pulled off the event’s biggest upset with a second-round submission. Llontop, who also was making his UFC debut, was as much as a 5-1 favorite. Although Padilla is just 28, he said his journey to the UFC has been more than half his life. “When I say literally 16 years in the making, it was 16 years in the making,” Padilla told MMA J Junkie and other reporters after UFC on ESPN 55 in Las Vegas.
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Chris Padilla ‘lost hope many times’ on long journey to UFC on ESPN 55 – MMA Junkie