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Im reading "The road to Nowhere: a journey through boxing so wasteland" by Tris Dixon.

It's a good read, he goes out to find former fighters who were never huge megastars to see what's happened to them and what they make of their careers in retrospect. People like Don Fullmer, Jeff Chandler, Dwight Qawi and the like.

I'm really enjoying it, and would recommend it
I was so close in making my last book about boxers.
I had my title "Forgotten Greats"

Pretty similar to how the book you mentioned would read. Had Talked to Ken Norton about doing it, along with Ron Lyle & Leon Spinks.
Lou Duva & Angelo Dundee were approached- I think they would've agreed. This was 2010.
I would finalize the book at the Boxing Hall of Fame. By 2011, everyone passed away, exlcuding Leon. I was at the door of success and it slipped away. I pitched the sequel to my first book to the publishers who agreed on Forgotten Greats, but they were IMO pro-Obama and didnt like my objective analysis on him. It was denied on arrival.