{"id":174810,"date":"2013-12-30T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c2872688-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2013-12-30T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:27:00","slug":"c287269b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/c287269b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Crank\u2019 returns with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho announced his return to the octagon cage with a knockout win in the Pacific Xtreme Combat in August in Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho, who took a leave of absence from PXC action for about six years, pummeled Japan\u2019s Koshi Matsumoto with punches to earn a TKO win at the 1:24 mark of the third round of their lightweight bout at the University of Guam Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis had to be one of the best game plans implementation in my career. Koshi Matsumoto is definitely no slouch in the MMA world. He is ranked No. 1 Shooto Japanese fighter by FIGHTER Magazine. I really studied him and with the help of my coaches and training partners,\u201d Camacho said in an earlier interview with Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old MMA fighter improved to an 11-2 record and earned his ninth win via TKO.<\/p>\n<p>Trench Tech\u2019s Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez also joined the August competition in Guam and won his debut in PXC. Alvarez earned a unanimous win over Spike 22\u2019s Tony \u201cRush\u201d Reyes in their bantamweight bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho announced his return to the octagon cage with a knockout win in the Pacific Xtreme Combat in August in Guam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}