{"id":40080,"date":"2026-08-24T06:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Chris-Padilla-grew-up-watching-Jim-Miller-now-he-wants-to-fight-him-202504"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:51:37","slug":"chris-padilla-grew-up-watching-jim-miller-now-he-wants-to-fight-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/chris-padilla-grew-up-watching-jim-miller-now-he-wants-to-fight-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Padilla grew up watching Jim Miller; now he wants to fight him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/chris-padilla-grew-up-watching-jim-miller-now-he-wants-to-fight-him.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chris-Padilla-124527\">Chris<br \/>\nPadilla<\/a> already has an opponent in mind for his next <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> bout.<\/p>\n<p>Padilla (18-6-1) submitted <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Nasrat-Haqparast-122581\">Nasrat<br \/>\nHaqparast<\/a> with an arm-triangle choke at 4:59 of the third round<br \/>\non the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-285-Hernandez-vs-Rodrigues-113260\"><br \/>\nUFC Sacramento<\/a> undercard, extending his UFC record to 5-0-1. He<br \/>\nnow wants to face veteran UFC star <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jim-Miller-14463\">Jim<br \/>\nMiller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Padilla wants to test himself against Miller after submitting<br \/>\nNasrat Haqparast at UFC Sacramento<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI need Jim Miller, man,\u201d Padilla told Heidi Androl after his win.<br \/>\n\u201cYou know, it&#8217;s a veteran, man. He&#8217;s been in the game for a really<br \/>\nlong time. I watched him growing up as a little maggot. So, I just<br \/>\nwant that, you know what I&#8217;m saying? I want fights that are going<br \/>\nto give me that little tingle. I got to live my dream, and here I<br \/>\nam. The new generation is coming up and I&#8217;m here to slaughter every<br \/>\none of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller, who debuted in the UFC back in 2008, is coming off a<br \/>\nsubmission victory over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jared-Gordon-74057\">Jared<br \/>\nGordon<\/a> in May, which saw the 42-year-old further extend the<br \/>\nrecord for most wins in UFC history (28). It marked his 47th outing<br \/>\nin the promotion, three shy of his desired goal of 50 Octagon<br \/>\nappearances.<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"0.61320754716981\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.0660377358491\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taco vs A-10 soon? \ud83d\udc40 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cdQ7jmYrOe\">pic.twitter.com\/cdQ7jmYrOe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC on Paramount+ (@UFConParamount) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UFConParamount\/status\/2091631569450737990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nAugust 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Padilla already has an opponent in mind for his next Ultimate Fighting Championship bout. Padilla (18-6-1) submitted Nasrat Haqparast with an arm-triangle choke at 4:59 of the third round on the UFC Sacramento undercard, extending his UFC record to 5-0-1. He now wants to face veteran UFC star Jim Miller. Padilla wants to test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}