{"id":308234,"date":"2019-09-18T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=308234"},"modified":"2019-09-18T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:06:58","slug":"crank-braces-for-strong-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crank-braces-for-strong-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crank\u2019 braces for strong foe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho, right, will duel Beneil \u2018\u2019Benny\u2019\u2019 Dariush in the UFC Fight Night 162 in Singapore on Oct. 26. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is aware how formidable his foe is and that\u2019s enough motivation for him to go all out in the UFC Fight Night 162.<\/p>\n

Camacho will be facing Beneil \u2018\u2019Benny\u2019\u2019 Dariush, one of the highly-regarded fighters in the lightweight division.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow good of an opponent Beneil is? He\u2019s fought the best in the division and has wins over some of them. He has fought the who\u2019s who in the division. That is definitely keeping me motivated,\u201d the Marianas warrior said.<\/p>\n

Dariush holds a 16-4-1 win-loss-draw record (3 KO wins, 7 submissions, and 6 decisions) and won his last two UFC bouts. He had nine UFC victories, including impressive ones against Jim Miller, James Vick, and Michael Johnson.<\/p>\n

Vick was on winning streak (nine straight wins) when the 30-year-old Dariush prevailed in their bout in UFC 199 last June 4, 2016, via KO (punches) at the 4:16 mark of the first round. Johnson was also on a roll (fourth consecutive victories) when he dueled Dariush in UFC Fight Night 73 in August 2015 and the latter pulled off a split decision win. Dariush also won by decision (unanimous) against Miller in UFC on Fox 15 in April 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cUtmost respect for Dariush. I\u2019ve met him multiple times and he\u2019s a class act. Martial artist at its finest. He is very technical all around and at one point was ranked No. 6 in the lightweight division, arguably one of the toughest divisions in the UFC,\u201d Camacho said.<\/p>\n

The Guam-born, CNMI-raised Camacho believes being paired against one of the tough fighters in the lightweight division will boost his stock.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery opportunity to fight in the UFC is great. After a successful win in Sweden, I am honored the UFC has me matched up against the No. 16 ranked lightweight. It\u2019s a huge opportunity for me to climb the ranks in the division and really make a name for myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Camacho is currently in California to prepare for his second bout of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be doing my seven-week fight camp with Team Oyama in Irvine,\u201d the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n

Camacho trained with the same group when he pounced on Germany\u2019s Nick \u201cSergeant\u201d Hein to earn a TKO win in the UFC Fight Night 153 in Stockholm in June this year.<\/p>\n

The Camacho-Dariush clash will be held on Oct. 26 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium\u2014the same venue where the Marianas fighter had his first UFC fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cSingapore has a very special place in my heart. It\u2019s where I made my UFC debut. The Singapore fans are awesome and the country is beautiful. I cannot wait to go back, fight in front of amazing Singaporean fans, and earn the win against Dariush on Oct. 26. The Marianas will be coming full force!\u201d Camacho said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is aware how formidable his foe is and that\u2019s enough motivation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":308237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23550,23704,8285,3378],"class_list":["post-308234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-beneil-benny-dariush","tag-singapore-indoor-stadium","tag-tko","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308234","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}