page_title: Jimmy Goodrich
section_title: Gradual boxing decline
hierarchical_section_title: Jimmy Goodrich / Gradual boxing decline
caption_attribution_description: English: Jack Bernstein, the Jr. Lightweight Boxing Champion of the world on May 30, 1923.
context_page_description: Jimmy Goodrich became the World Lightweight Champion when he defeated Chilean boxer Stanislaus Loayza in a second round TKO at Queensboro Stadium in Queens, New York on July 13, 1925. He retained the title only five months, losing it by unanimous decision to Rocky Kansas on December 7, 1925. Goodrich was known for having never been the victim of a knockout.
context_section_description: After winning the title, Goodrich's boxing record began a gentle decline in 1926, perhaps due to the superior quality of the boxers he faced.  These included tough bouts with ranked boxers Solly Seeman, and Tod Morgan, and two bouts with Mushy Callahan. Morgan was Jr. Lightweight Champion at the time of his bout with Goodrich, having taken it in December 1925, and Callahan would later hold the Jr. Lightweight Championship. Goodrich lost each of his bouts with these lightweight champions.
  In his remaining four years as a boxer, he continued to face stiff competition.  He had a bout with Baby Joe Gans, two bouts with Jr. Lightweight ex-champion Jack Bernstein, and bouts with both Ruby Goldstein, and Eddie "Kid" Wagner.
  Goodrich had a critically important bout with Sammy Mandell on September 25, 1928.  At the time, Mandell still held the Lightweight Championship of the World. Goodrich won the bout with Mandell in a second round TKO, breaking Mandell's collarbone.  After winning the bout decisively, Goodrich later regretted the decision he had made to fight Mandell over the required Lightweight limit, as he would have retaken the lightweight title if the fight had been a sanctioned lightweight championship.
  By 1930, Goodrich lost most of his more well publicized bouts.
caption: Jack Bernstein
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