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David Segura is a tech founder in Detroit. And the manager of up-and-coming welterweight Domonique Dolton.

Special Interest David Segura, 47, grew up going to fight nights at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with his dad. This night, he’s in a ringside seat at the Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center in nearby Flint, watching his boxer take on an undefeated opponent, Jamontay Clark.

David Segura’s grandfather fled the Mexican Revolution in 1917 for work on the assembly lines in Detroit—“from the state of Michoacán to the state of Michigan,” he used to say. Segura’s first job out of the University of Michigan was at Ford, but not on the factory floor; he had

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