“I could have easily made that fight so difficult,” he said. “I needed a win and I couldn’t perform the way I did with Geoff Neal (who stopped Camacho in a September 2018 bout). There was no way that was happening. I have so many fights, but so many first round finishes. That was my greatest strength but it was also my greatest weakness. Now in the UFC, everyone is tough, everyone’s strong, everyone’s fast. Now who’s being smart about it? I have so many tools and I was able to show some of that in my last fight. And I gained way more confidence with that fight because of the results that I got.”
That’s not to say he didn’t want to bring “Frank the Crank” out at times.
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“A couple times that happened,” he laughs. “He (Hein) cracked me good and I was about to go all-in, but then I heard Alex (Perez) and Coach Oyama. ‘Get behind the jab, Frank.’ That was their way of saying, ‘Okay, don’t get all crazy.’”
It worked. All he needs is for it to work again on Saturday night.
“I have to have discipline and patience during the fight,” Camacho said. “I can work out and train as hard as I want, but I have to implement it and show up on fight day. What gets me in trouble sometimes is that I don’t have patience.”
That was the old Frank Camacho.
“This is a great opportunity for me to put a stamp on my name in the division,” he said. “I’m just gonna have to find the balance of old ‘Crank’ and new ‘Crank.’”
