Danny Goodman

Name: Danny Goodman
Birth Name: Daniel Goodman
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 1951-07-14 (Age:62)
Height: 163cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: Joe Thomas

Danny Goodman was a Private in the 1st Regiment machine gun infantry in the National Guard. He later became a sergeant and the boxing instructor for the 86th National Army at Camp Grant, near Rockford, Illinois (10/05/1917 Chicago Tribune).

Goodman talked back to a First Lieutenant of Company A 342nd Infantry. He had a court martial and was sentenced to six months in the guardhouse in enforced seclusion (03/21/1918 Chicago Tribune).

He was demoted to a Private and was replaced as boxing instructor by Fred Dwyer. Goodman later owned a restaurant at Harrison and Dearborn in Chicago (07/30/1921 Chicago Tribune).

As reported in the February 24, 1924 Chicago Tribune, Goodman was sent to Kane County Jail for 90 days for selling alcohol at his bar at 1600 South Wabash Avenue in Chicago.

Goodman eventually became a fight promoter, which he did until his death. He died of a heart attack July 14, 1951, and was buried in Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois. Upon his death, the New York Times reported that he had had some 350 career bouts from 1904 to 1919. He had served as a machine gunner in the 131st Infantry on the Mexican border in 1915.