{"id":215998,"date":"2015-12-04T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215998"},"modified":"2015-12-04T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:00:07","slug":"the-crank-fails-to-make-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-crank-fails-to-make-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Crank\u2019 fails to make weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216003\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PXC-pix-Camacho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PXC-pix-Camacho-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Camacho\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-216003\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho\u2019s title hopes in Pacific Xtreme Combat were quashed yesterday after he failed to make weight in time for his title bout with Guam\u2019s Tyrone \u201cBones\u201d Jones in tonight\u2019s PXC 50.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho (17-3, 13 knockouts) was supposed to face the Guam Muay Thai bet Jones (5-4, 3KOs) for the vacant PXC lightweight belt in the main event at the University of Guam Calvo Fieldhouse in Mangilao.<\/p>\n<p>Trench Tech promoter Cuki Alvarez said in a Facebook message to the Saipan Tribune that Camacho did not meet the 155-lb limit in yesterday\u2019s weigh in at Cars Plus in Maite. He added that Camacho was 3.9 lbs overweight.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said the main event will still continue but Camacho, if he wins, will not get the belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jones wins, he gets the title plus Frank has to pay 80 percent of his purse toward penalties to [his opponent],\u201d said Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Despite failing to make the weight that disqualified him for winning the lightweight belt, Alvarez said that Camacho took it positively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is still all good. Rules are rules. Frank is much better now, though he was severely dehydrated [before the weigh in]. He\u2019s in good spirits and at least he still gets to fight,\u201d Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>Three other CNMI fighters will also see action in the undercard bouts with Alvarez\u2019s son Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez facing Japanese Yutaro Muramoto in a bantamweight match.<\/p>\n<p>Roman \u201cSonic Boom\u201d Alvarez, Shane\u2019s cousin, will take on New Zealand\u2019s Mark Abelardo in a featherweight bout, while Josh \u201cChaos\u201d Duenas hopes for some redemption when he collides with another New Zealander, Kai Cara-France, in the flyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Cuki Alvarez and Ken \u201cKamikazi\u201d Tanzawa will act as the cornerment of the CNMI fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuke Yachi of Japan will defend his PXC featherweight title against Alex Volkanovski in the semi main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho\u2019s title hopes in Pacific Xtreme Combat were quashed yesterday after he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6409,4414,8534,1289],"class_list":["post-215998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cuki-alvarez","tag-guam-muay-thai","tag-japanese-yutaro-muramoto","tag-pxc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215998","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=215998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}