Chris Padilla will look to win his fourth-straight fight inside of the Octagon later tonight (Sat., Nov. 8, 2025) at UFC Vegas 111 LIVE on ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, but more importantly \u201cTaco\u201d will be trying to prove his doubters wrong.<\/p>\n
Padilla, who is 3-0 since joining the UFC roster, will be matched up against a massively overweight<\/a> Ismael Bonfim on Saturday. He\u2019ll be a slight betting underdog, but it will be another chance for \u201cTaco\u201d to prove he\u2019s the real deal at 155 pounds and push himself closer to a top 15 matchup in 2026.<\/p>\n Ahead of Saturday\u2019s contest, Padilla jumped on social media to do a little Q&A with fight fans. That\u2019s when \u201cTaco\u201d voluntarily revealed the he smoked a bunch of marijuana during his camp for UFC Vegas 111. That\u2019s not something that all fighters do or something that all fight fans support, which prompted one fan to explain that his MMA coach was mad when he found out he smoked weed.<\/p>\n Check out Padilla\u2019s response below and let us know your thoughts!<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve already dealt with hard drugs in my family. Alcoholism, crack, all that,\u201d explained Padilla. \u201cSome people pray to god before there fights, some people don\u2019t. Some of them win, some of them don\u2019t. That\u2019s how I see smoking.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see no outer-force forcing me to. It\u2019s just me in there. My brain, my body, and my opponent. I ain\u2019t worried about none of that.\u201d<\/p>\n MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Vegas 111 fight card on fight night, starting with the ESPN+<\/a> preliminary card bouts at 4 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining main card balance on ESPN+<\/a> at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n To check out the latest and greatest UFC Vegas 111 news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive here<\/a>. For the updated and finalized \u201cBonfim vs. Brown\u201d fight card and ESPN+<\/a> lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Padilla will look to win his fourth-straight fight inside of the Octagon later tonight (Sat., Nov. 8,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702],"class_list":["post-270518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}