[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Demetrius Hopkins returns![/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Wednesday, August 13 2008[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Top jr. welterweight contender Demetrius Hopkins will make his return to the ring Sept. 5 in Albuquerque, N.M., fighting for the first time under the Top Rank banner. Hopkins, 28-0-1, 11 KOs, inactive since last November, will take on Juaquin Gallardo, of 18-7-1, 5 KOs, of Oakland. The two Telefutura-televised bouts for the card include a ten-rounder between Ray Sanchez III (21-2, 15 KOs) of Albuquerque, and Joaquin Zamora (15-2-1, 10 KOs), of Luna/Pecos; and a 12-round double title fight for the NABF & WBO Latino belts, between top lightweight contender Urbano Antillon (23-0, 16 KOs) and Mexicos Guadalupe Rosales (27-2, 15 KOs). The undercard includes: Las Cruces bantam Sammy DiPace (3-0, 3 KOs) vs. San Antonian Julio Valadez (2-0); Las Cruces Ricky Vasquez (2-1-1, 1 KO) vs. David Springer (0-0-3) of Las Vegas, Nev.; featherweight Marcos Lopez (5-0, 3 KOs), of Mexico, vs. Las Cruces Lorenzo Estrada (3-13-1, 1 KO); bantamweight Robert Marroquin (3-0, 3 KOs) of Dallas, goes six with Gino Escamilla (5-3-1, 2 KOs), of Laredo, Tex.; and, in an eight-rounder, super featherweight Argenis Mendez (12-0, 8 KOs) faces Erik Rodriguez (15-2-1, 7 KOs), of San Antonio. --Chris Cozzone[/FONT] arum knows how to build them, but damn...to leave his uncles stable for the enemy is some weird **** :huh
Freddy, D-Hop was dropped from Golden Boy a while ago. He was living in one of B-Hop's property's and decided he didn't want to pay his bills on time. He and his uncle had a falling out, Demetrius was kicked out of the property, and his contract was not extended with Golden Boy. Supposedly, they were also pissed at Demetrius for pulling out of the Witter fight.
GBP dropped him around the time when D decided to drop out of the fight with Witter when he was still champion.
That's what happens when you don't pay your bills and you pull out of fights like he did. Despite this, I'm glad he's getting another shot.
I know Witter's stock is low right now after that showing against Bradley. But let's be real here: D-Hop would have gotten bitchslapped if he had gone through with that fight.
D-Hop was smart, he was not ready to be fighting championship level guys at the time. I do not know what happend with him and his uncle and like they say there is two sides to every story, but I think D-Hop is doing what is best for him and that is a good thing.
TOP RANK is doing really great lately, at some point they had no one but Cotto to talk about a probably 2 others, now it's getting more competitive and that means more great events to come.
