Legacy FC 16 – Jimmy Flick is Ready for Will Campuzano and Legacy Flyweight Title Belt

By Felix Rodriguez, Staff Writer

ALLEN, TX, December 12, 2012 – 22 year-old Jimmy Flick is on top of the world right now. The Oklahoman went undefeated as an amateur mixed martial artist and continues to have a perfect 6-0 record as a professional fighter. Flick recently opened the Flick Brothers MMA Academy in his hometown of Sand Springs, OK where he lives with his newlywed wife. The proud first-time father of a beautiful seven month-old girl sees these two people as the driving force behind his motivation because although MMA is something he began doing for love of the sport, fighting has now become a necessity in order to feed his family. “Fatherhood totally changed me there are no ifs, ands, or, buts I gotta go do everything for my daughter now, if I don’t win that’s her diapers, her formula, her future that I’m letting someone else take away.” When Flick steps into the cage he is fighting for three now and he is determined to beat former UFC veteran, Will Campuzano to become the Legacy FC 125lb champion on December 14th at Legacy 16.

The flyweight match was originally scheduled to take place at Legacy 14, but Campuzano pulled out of that fight due to injury and the ensuing war of words between the two has guaranteed that there is more than a strap on the line, these fighters definitely have some bad blood they are looking to settle. Flick was angered when Campuzano claimed he was “going to break the Brick” after their original matchup was announced and he doesn’t believe Campuzano’s reason for backing out was an injury. He said “Will was talking all this mess about how he was gonna break me and then he backed out of the fight. I don’t know the real reason, I think he was scared.” When asked why he felt this way Flick reasoned, “Will can’t keep his story straight, first he claimed to have emphysema. That is something old people get from smoking, I doubt he smokes cigarettes or even pot to have that, he’s too young; then he claimed to have an ankle injury and the third thing he said was that having back-to-back camps would be too hard on his body after Chad Robo pulled out from their original fight.”

Flick cannot wait to step into the cage this December 14th and have Campuzano staring at him from across the cage. He noted “No matter who he is training with come Friday he [Campuzano] ain’t ready for me. I’m ready for a war and I can’t wait to drop some elbows on his face but 30 seconds in I’ll choke him out if I can.” Flick has been wrestling since the age of three and credits his father, Jimmy Flick for motivating him to develop his life-long love of grappling.

Aside from a solid wrestling base Flick is also a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Hector Munoz’s Full Contact Fight Academy in Corpus Christie, TX. Flick sees his well roundedness and superiority on the ground as no match for Campuzano, who he acknowledges as having “really high-level Muay Thai.” Flick is confident he can overcome his opponent’s striking prowess and experience fighting in bigger promotions like the UFC and the now defunct WEC, and believes he’ll be able to dictate where the fight will end up. Flick doesn’t think his opponent will be able to make it two KO wins in a row. He explained “Will may have fought at 135 before but he isn’t a very big guy, people think he has knockout power at 125, but I saw his fight with Josh Sampo and he wasn’t winning that. Sampo got caught with a good knee, but I’m not worried about his power. I can take him down.”

When asked if Campuzano’s previous experiences fighting for the world’s biggest promotion put him at a disadvantage Flick didn’t think this was the case because of his own circumstances coming up as a professional fighter. He explained, “My first professional fight was at Bellator Fighting Championships against a gentleman by the name of Humberto Deleon who was 5-2 at the time. I fought a 5-2 guy when I was 0-0 on TV for my first fight, I’ve been wrestling and competing my whole life I can handle the pressure too.”

Campuzano is definitely the more experienced fighter who has bigger names on his résumé and Flick would love nothing more than to add Campuzano’s name to his own win column, witch currently lacks a big name opponent. Flick defended the quality of the opposition he’s faced so far by noting that he’s fought who ever has been put in front of him and pointing out that his last two opponents were not exactly world beaters, but they were the replacements available to him after both Chad Robichaux and Will Campuzano had pulled out of scheduled matches against him. Flick doesn’t want to pad his record before getting his opportunity in the big stage and emphasized that “people can think what they want, I’ll fight whoever, the two guys I fought last were the only two people I could book after these guys [Robichaux and Campuzano] backed out.”

Flick is tired of what he sees as excuses and back tracking. He is ready to prove his doubters wrong and win his second title as a pro MMA fighter in hopes of getting a call from the UFC one day to provide for his family in the way he feels they are deserving of. He is thankful for the sponsorships and support he has received along the way from Pros in Control, Domestic Drilling, Lightning Fluid, Rocks Supplements, Ryu and I’m a Beast, but like any new father he wants even more for his baby girl. The way Flick sees it Will Campuzano is the first obstacle on his path to greatness and being able to do right by his family.

For more information on Jimmy Flick follow him on twitter @Jimmyflick or find him on facebook and add him as a friend. Legacy 16 will be aired on AXS TV this Friday December 14th, 2012 at 10pm EST. Make sure to check out TXMMA’s upcoming Legacy 16 preview for more information on the card.