raging bull returns a favor for a friend R.I.P.(BRUISER BRODY)
7-18-88 police in San Juan,puerto rico, have charged professional wrestler jose huertas gonzalez with killing wrestler Frank Goodish, known professionally as BRUSIER BRODY. Goodish.42,was stabbed saturday during a locker room argument with other wrestlers in juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium in Bayamon, a San Juan suburb. the stabbing occurred just before goodish was scheduled to apper in a match. He died several hours later during surgery at a SanJuan hospital. Gonzalez, known to wrestling fans as INVADER !,was arrested in San Juan late tuesday and charged with first-degree murder,the San Juan Star reported. He was released on bail, and a preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled Aug. 8. Goodish, a San Antonio resident who worked as a sportswriter for the Mid-Cities News before he became a wrestler,also played football in 1969-70 as a member of the minor league Fort Worth Braves. He is survived by his wife and 8-year old son.
In case you were not aware, The Invader #1 (aka Jose Gonzalez) is indeed the man who legitimately murdered wrestling legend Bruiser Brody in Puerto Rico on July 17, 1988. Well-known wrestler Tony Atlas witnessed the actual murder take place while dressing in the same room. In a sworn police statement, Tony Atlas stated that Jose Gonzalez had approached Bruiser Brody in a shower with a long, concealed hunting knife and stabbed him in the torso several times. Tony Atlas would refuse to testify at the trial though, which is why Jose Gonzalez was eventually acquited. Without Tony Atlas, they had no case. The jury in a Puerto Rican murder case does not have to come to a unanimous decision, and which ever way the majority of the jury votes is how the verdict is rendered. Although Puerto Rican law came to a different conclusion, most familiar with the case believe that Jose Gonzalez walked away a free man. The World Wrestling Council, once a wrestling hot-bed, all but disappeared after the negative publicity and devastating loss of American talent who refused to work in Puerto Rico after the murder.Invader #1: The Puerto Rican Murderer On July 17, 1988, Bruiser Brody was scheduled to wrestle in a match with Abdullah the Butcher and Dan Spivey in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Brody who, like Jose Gonzales, was also a booker in addition to being a wrestler, was approached by Gonzales in the locker room and asked to to go into the showers with him to discuss business away from the view of the other wrestlers in the locker room.
Exactly what transpired in the shower is in dispute and various theories abound. What is known is that there was a loud argument which culminated, whether in self defense or as an act of murder or manslaughter, with the stabbing of Bruiser Brody by Jose Gonzales. Brody died several hours later on the operating table.
Jose Gonzales was charged with first degree murder and was acquitted in a trial plagued with a lack of witnesses.
