{"id":344989,"date":"2021-05-27T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=344989"},"modified":"2021-05-27T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:04:05","slug":"the-crank-gears-up-for-ufc-263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-crank-gears-up-for-ufc-263\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Crank\u2019 gears up for UFC 263"},"content":{"rendered":"
Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d as he trains for the Ultimate Fighting Championship 263 Figueiredo vs Moreno 2 on June 12. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is buckling down on his training and is confident he will be ready to \u201ccrank it up\u201d when he returns to the octagon cage as one of the undercards for Ultimate Fighting Championship 263 Figueiredo vs Moreno 2 on June 12. <\/p>\n

In a short interview with Camacho, he reports that he\u2019s about four to five weeks into his training camp that will last a total of eight weeks leading up to the fight on June 12. <\/p>\n

When asked about what he is working on in terms of his training, Camacho said the focus is focus. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus of this camp is focus. Focusing at the task at hand, focusing on details of camp, focusing on details, on strategy of the fight, and really focusing on the stuff I can control like training hard, nutrition, and technique,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Camacho said he is confident that on fight night, he will be 100% ready to \u201ccrank it up.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to give a special shout-out to my wife and family for holding down the Crank Fort. I miss everyone back home and I can\u2019t wait to be in Saipan after the fight. Biba Marianas,\u201d said Camacho. <\/p>\n

Camacho\u2019s foe for the June 12 fight is Matt \u201cThe Steamrolla\u201d Frevola, who incidentally is the same fighter paired against the Team Oyama standout in the UFC Fight Night 173 in Las Vegas about a year ago before the former was pulled out from the schedule the last minute after his cornerman was tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Nearly three months after missing the chance to challenge Frevola, it was Camacho\u2019s turn to withdraw from his duel against Brok \u201cChata Tuska\u201d Weaver in the UFC Fight Night 177 after contracting the same virus.<\/p>\n

With both fighters eager to return to the eight sides, Camacho is expecting a brawl in the three-round bout against Frevola.<\/p>\n

The Marianas pride holds a 22-9 record and dropped his last two UFC bouts\u2014bowing to Beneil Dariush in UFC Fight Night 162 last Oct. 26, 2019 via submission (rear-naked choke) and Justine Jaynes (via TKO), who replaced Frevola in the UFC on ESPN 11 that took place last June 20, 2020 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho is buckling down on his training and is confident he will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":344990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3378],"class_list":["post-344989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344989","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}