![]() He said he had been as much as five pounds overweight two days before the fight and had to go 36 hours without eating, and then rise at 5 a.m. Certainly Rosario, who had been tentative in the Camacho fight, failing to finish the World Boxing Council champion off when he had opportunities, was re-annointed as an attraction with this knockout victory over Bramble.īut then Camacho spoiled that when, immediately after his fight, he said this 135-pound business was too much. A Camacho-Rosario rematch, while not as attractive, would draw nevertheless. Still, at the night’s conclusion it appeared that the lightweight division could move on, even without the anticipated Bramble-Camacho fight. And Camacho, though he easily decisioned the veteran Cornelius Boza-Edwards later in the Miami Beach humidity, has evidently decided he’s leaving the lightweight division, and arch-rival Rosario, behind. ![]() ![]() In any event, Friday night’s so-called Preamble to Bramble, a presumed tuneup for an eventual unification of Bramble’s and Camacho’s lightweight titles, produced the usual chaos instead in boxing’s most exciting division.Įdwin Rosario, a former champion who was brought in for purposes of credibility, brutally flattened Bramble in two rounds, after 45 straight punches, thereby immediately blowing the title showdown angle. And Hector (Macho) Camacho, whose childish vainglory is plenty legend enough without his marvelous fists, may have gone the way of all lightweights who can no longer fit into an iridescent suit of lights. Livingstone Bramble, the dreadlocked Rastafarian with a dog named Snake and a snake named Dog, may have gone the way of all colorful fighters who fail to support their legend in the ring.
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