Dick Daniels was a heavyweight

Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

 professional boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Professional career

Daniels started his professional career with a loss to 105-46-10 veteran Frank Moody

Frank Moody

Frank Moody was a Welsh boxer who fought between 1914 and 1936. He is most notable for winning the British and Empire middleweight boxing championship in 1927 and 1928 and the light-heavyweight title from 1927 to 1929....

, losing by second-round knockout

Knockout

A knockout is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and others sports involving striking...

. This debut was followed by 10 consecutive wins, and Daniels had established himself as a competent prizefighter. Daniels fought 35-2-2 Charley Retzlaff

Charley Retzlaff

Charley Retzlaff, alias The Duluth Dynamiter was a heavyweight professional boxer from Duluth, Minnesota.-Professional career:...

 for the vacant Minnesota State Heavyweight Title in March 1932, losing by first-round knockout. Daniels would retire after consecutive losses to Tony Galento

Tony Galento

Domenico Antonio Galento was an American heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "Two Ton" for his reasoning to his manager for being nearly late to one of his fights: "I had two tons of ice to deliver on my way here". Galento was one of the most colorful fighters in the history of the sport...

 in December 1938 and Harry Thomas

Henry Thomas (boxer)

Albert Henry "Harry" Thomas was a British bantamweight professional boxer who won gold in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics with a decision over John Condon....

in January 1939, having compiled a final record of 43-20-3 with 11 wins by knockout.