{"id":346453,"date":"2021-06-22T06:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=346453"},"modified":"2021-06-22T06:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:04:58","slug":"cuki-the-crank-in-good-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cuki-the-crank-in-good-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuki: \u2018The Crank\u2019 in good spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marianas mixed martial arts fighter Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho poses with Dr. William Kessler at Kessler Family Wellness. (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While there\u2019s no timetable yet on Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho\u2019s return to the octagon cage, the Marianas mixed martial arts fighter is finally out of the hospital and is now rehabilitating from injuries he sustained after figuring in a multi-vehicle accident last June 8, California time.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrank is in very good spirits and is now just recovering and healing. He already started therapy,\u201d said Trench Tech Gym founder and Camacho\u2019s cornerman, Cuki Alvarez, in a social media message to the Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n

Camacho currently is undergoing his therapy and rehabilitation sessions at Kessler Family Wellness in Tustin, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks Dr. William Kessler at Kessler Family Wellness for the help. Recovery and rehab currently undergoing well,\u201d said Camacho in a post in his social media account.<\/p>\n

Alvarez, who was also in the vehicle with Camacho when the accident happened, said Camacho is on his way back to recovery and just needs time and rehabilitation to return to his old self.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are OK and we\u2019re back at his friend\u2019s apartment resting up. Unfortunately due to the accident, Frank was forced to pull out of his fight in this UFC card\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Camacho has since been rejoined by his wife Sarah and their youngest daughter in California. As for Alvarez, he said they are now making arrangements to fly him back home to the CNMI.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m totally fine, escaped unscathed. Old man strength!\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n

Last June 8 or a couple of days before his fight in UFC 263, Alvarez and Camacho were returning from Redondo Beach in Los Angeles en route back to Irvine when a large SUV side-swiped them on the 405 Freeway\u2019s carpool lane while they were traveling around 75 mph. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverything happened so fast. The SUV was on the farthest left lane and I guess somehow lost control and slammed into the retaining wall on his left then ricochet right into our car on Frank\u2019s side (driver) causing us to lose control and drift toward our right onto the other lanes. We drifted and swerved and almost got totally out of control but managed to save it. All the while as we were drifting, the SUV that hit us, flipped over our hood and crashed taking out several other cars that were trailing on the other four lanes. It was so crazy and all of the cars ended up piling up along the far right shoulder smashing against the other retaining wall on that side,\u201d recalled Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Camacho and Alvarez were transported to Los Alamitos Medical Center via ambulance and the two were there for five hours. \u201cFrank needed x-rays and a CT scan and eventually was ordered to get an MRI to make sure because the doctors eventually found two ruptured discs in his neck and spine,\u201d said Alvarez. <\/p>\n

For the record, Camacho had four raptured discs\u2014C4 C6, C7, and T1\u2014that resulted from the severe whiplash caused by the side impact on the June 8 car accident. <\/p>\n

Due to the injuries he sustained in the accident, Camacho was forced to withdraw from that weekend\u2019s UFC 263 showdown against Matt Frevola. He was eventually replaced by Terrence McKinney in the UFC 263 fight-card. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While there\u2019s no timetable yet on Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho\u2019s return to the octagon cage,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":346454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346453","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}