Oscar De La Hoya vs. Hector Camacho, billed as Opposites Attack, was a professional boxing match contested on September 13, 1997 for the WBC welterweight championship.

De La Hoya started the year by making a successful defense of the WBC light-welterweight title against Miguel Angel Gonzalez.

[2] De La Hoya would continue his winning ways in June by knocking out mandatory challenger David Kamau in the second round of his first welterweight title defense.

Though most of the fighters he fought were unknown journeymen, Camacho did score two high-profile victories over two future hall-of-famers, first defeating Roberto Durán by unanimous decision on June 22, 1996, and then scoring a technical knockout victory over Sugar Ray Leonard On March 1, 1997 in what would prove to be the final fight of Leonard's career.

Camacho tried to keep up with his younger and faster opponent, but simply could not land any sustained offense and was forced both to constantly retreat and clinch De La Hoya several times throughout the fight.