{"id":268439,"date":"2018-01-22T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=268439"},"modified":"2018-01-22T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:04:55","slug":"crank-welcomes-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crank-welcomes-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crank\u2019 welcomes challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_268443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268443\" style=\"width: 842px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ufcpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho, bottom, tries to get out of a choke hold by Brandon Vera in this file photo taken during one of their training sessions in Guam. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is up to the challenge of facing veteran fighters under the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization, like his next opponent Drew Dober.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho will be meeting Dober in one of the four main card bouts in UFC ON FOX 27 Jacare VS Brunson 2 on Jan. 27 (Jan. 28 Marianas time) at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ronaldo Souza will again take on Brunson in a five-round middleweight non-title bout. The Brazilian defeated Brunson by knockout via punches in Strikeforce; Rousey vs. Kaufman on Aug. 18, 2012 at the Valley View Casin Center in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho (21-5 with 15 knockouts) will be fighting for the third time under UFC, while Dober (18-8 with 4 KOs) has been with the popular mixed martial arts promotion since 2013. The Omaha, Nebraska-born fighter suffered a unanimous decision loss to Sean Spencer in UFC\u2019s Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale on Nov. 30, 2013 held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho said he is thankful for the trust UFC has given him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to share the cage with [Dober] and he\u2019s a UFC veteran since 2013. And I\u2019m humbled for the opportunity to share the cage with a UFC veteran like him. This is my third fight in the UFC and it\u2019s so nice the UFC organizers are matching me up against tough dudes. A win over Dober will propel me in the rankings,\u201d added the 28-year-old fighter from the Marianas, who left for Charlotte yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he completely trusts the entire UFC organization in choosing his opponents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [UFC] matchmakers know what they\u2019re doing. They know this match is going to be filled with firepower,\u201d Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he seizes every opportunity presented to him. \u201cIn life, you\u2019re given so many opportunities. This is one that I\u2019m presented. I can\u2019t shy away from it. It\u2019s a fight that will show once again where I come from and the island fighting spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Marianas pride will face Dober less than three months after earning his first UFC win. He outclassed Damien Brown via split decision in UFC Fight Night 121: Werdum VS. Tybura in November last year at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Camacho also dueled China\u2019s Jingliang Li and was a last-minute replacement in UFC Fight Night 111 in Singapore. He lost his UFC debut to Li, but their bout was selected as Fight of the Night\u2014the same distinction the Camacho-Brown tiff earned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is up to the challenge of facing veteran fighters under the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":268443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18755,19825,17264,3378],"class_list":["post-268439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-damien-brown","tag-drew-dober","tag-jingliang-li","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}