No Love Lost Between Haugen, Camacho : Boxing: They will fight rematch tonight. Their first bout, in February, ended in controversy.

Greg Haugen and Hector Camacho, two of boxing’s prominent bad boys, will meet in a rematch tonight, three months after their controversial junior-welterweight fight in Las Vegas.

Haugen upset the previously unbeaten Camacho on a controversial decision Feb. 23. Here is how it wound down:

--At the start of the 12th round of a very close fight, Haugen refused to touch gloves with Camacho, at which point Camacho threw punches. Referee Carlos Padilla deducted a point from Camacho, even though the touching of gloves isn’t covered in the rules.

The point was decisive, giving Haugen a 114-113 margin on one score card. Another had Haugen, 114-112, and the third had Camacho winning, 114-112.

--Haugen flunked the postfight drug test, showing traces of marijuana. The Nevada commission fined him $25,000 and assigned him to 200 hours of community service.

--One judge, Bill McConkey, it was later learned, had once promoted Haugen fights in Alaska. His was the card that had Haugen winning.

Camacho is no stranger to drug troubles, of course, except that his problems were with cocaine. He also did nine months at Riker’s Island for car theft.

For most of his career, Camacho, most believed, was on his way to boxing’s super class. He had as much talent as anyone, it seemed, and also a sort of carnival-style showmanship. Through 1985, he was 29-0.

Then he fought Edwin Rosario.

Camacho won a decision that night in Madison Square Garden, but absorbed punishment. And afterward, Camacho adopted a style of lateral and reverse movements, of darting in to land scoring combinations, then quickly retreating. The boos began.

He also began fighting infrequently. Since his fight with Rosario, June 13, 1986, he has fought only 10 times. He was 39-0 when he tripped over Haugen.

Camacho has had repeated trouble making the junior-welterweight 140-pound limit but said this week that he will have no difficulty. In the first fight against Haugen, he had to lose four pounds the day before the fight.

Haugen (28-3-1), who answers to “Mutt,” and who looks and fights like a sawed-off version of 1950s middleweight champion Gene Fullmer, resents his lot in life, the perception that he is not a major player in his sport.

“All my life people have been using me as a tuneup, and afterward they find out they’re the ones who need a tuneup,” he said.

He dislikes Camacho, says so and resents what he sees as an imbalance on the subject of drugs.

“I tested for traces of a marijuana, and he was busted for cocaine, yet all that’s talked about is my case,” he said.

Of his refusal to touch gloves with Camacho at the start of the 12th round Feb. 23, he said: “Why should there be any sportsmanship between Hector and me?”

After a news conference this week, Haugen angered Camacho’s entourage by shouting: “Hey, all you guys are going to have to get jobs after Saturday!”