Camacho, Bramble Each Defend Titles in Separate Bouts Tonight at Miami Beach

Hector (Macho) Camacho and Livingstone Bramble, two of boxing’s more colorful characters, will each defend his share of the lightweight title in separate bouts tonight.

What they really want to do is fight each other, and such a bout is planned for next year.

It would be an attention-getter: the wise-cracking Camacho, who grew up in New York’s Spanish Harlem and who likes metallic suits and fancy cars, against the wise-cracking Bramble, a Rastafarian, who trains to the beat of reggae music and keeps pit bulls and snakes as pets.

But first Camacho must retain the World Boxing Council title in a scheduled 12-round bout against Cornelius Boza-Edwards, and Bramble must beat Edwin Rosario in Bramble’s scheduled 15-round defense of the World Boxing Assn. crown

Camacho and Bramble are heavy favorites to win at Abel Holtz Stadium, an outdoor tennis arena seating 10,000. Bramble will fight first on the card, which will be televised by HBO (6 p.m. PDT).

Boza-Edwards, 30, a Ugandan who lives in Las Vegas, is 44-5-1 with 34 knockouts. Camacho, 24, is 30-0 with 12 knockouts.

Rosario, 23, of Puerto Rico, is 23-2 with 19 knockouts. Bramble, 26, a native of the Virgin Islands, who lives in Hampton Township, N.J., is 24-1-1 with 15 knockouts.