Guest Astro Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 Mods if this is inappropriate just delete the thread - thanks Brody
Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 Please resize the pic so it doesn't stretch the page. Or link it. Anyway, I definitely need to bone up on my old school knowledge. That doesn't look like the bruiser Brody *I* remember.
Guest Astro Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 Pardon my ignorance, but how do you resize a picture?
Guest Corino 1000 Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 I know Jose Gonzalez stabbed him(or were the charges dropped or smthing?) but where and when?
Golgo 13 Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 Backstage at a show in Puerto Rico. Frank Goodish a.k.a. Bruiser Brody was murdered in a Puerto Rican locker room on July 17, 1988, the victim of several stab wounds to the stomach. Jose Gonzalez was charged with the murder. The news of Brody's murder sent shockwaves through the world of wrestling, and everyone wanted to know just why someone would murder the well-liked (among his fellow wrestlers) Brody. Tony Atlas witnessed the murder take place while in the same locker room. In a statement to police at the time, Atlas told the authorities that Gonzalez had approached Brody (after a series of real-life confrontations between Brody-Gonzalez) in the shower with a long, concealed hunting knife and stabbed Goodish in the torso several times. Atlas would refuse to testify at the trial though, and Gonzalez was eventually acquitted. Brody's family attorney was quoted at the time saying that Atlas refused extradition (he was allowed to do so on a technicality) and that the case had depended entirely on his testimony. Without Atlas, they had no case. Unlike in the United States, 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 Brody's murderer 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 Brody's murder. But the loss of the WWC pales in comparison to the loss the sport suffered when Frank Goodish died. Wrestling lost a true legend on that steamy August night, the likes of which we may never see again. - KayfabeMemories
Slayer Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 I thought you meant right after being stabbed (in the shower, in other words) This is just a funeral pic which, while inoffensive, disappoints me (given the premise)
Slayer Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 Also, bear in mind that while some people are quick to label Jose Gonzalez as a murderer, he also has his defenders who believe it was an act of self defense Given Brody's tempermant, that's quite plausible
nl5xsk1 Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 Also, bear in mind that while some people are quick to label Jose Gonzalez as a murderer, he also has his defenders who believe it was an act of self defense Given Brody's tempermant, that's quite plausible Good thing he had a hunting knife with him in the shower for protection, then, huh? (note to self: carry weapons in the shower with me, just in case I need to defend myself)
Slayer Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Also, bear in mind that while some people are quick to label Jose Gonzalez as a murderer, he also has his defenders who believe it was an act of self defense Given Brody's tempermant, that's quite plausible Good thing he had a hunting knife with him in the shower for protection, then, huh? (note to self: carry weapons in the shower with me, just in case I need to defend myself) IIRC (from the account by Dutch Mantel and what people say Tony Atlas said before supposedly changing his story), Brody wasn't actually in the shower showering, but one of the two or both (being Gonzalez and Brody) decided for that to be a "private" meeting place over some issue I'm just playing devil's advocate here for Gonzalez, since so many people automatically peg him as guilty. I try not to take sides due to the whole "none of us were there and all we know is through said second-hand accounts"
Guest Frank_Nabbit Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 I think Brody was still in his street clothes when he was stabbed. He lost a lot of blood in the locker room, it took an ambulance an hour to arrive, then the puerto Rican doctors wouldn't take him 1st because he was an american... He bleed to death on the operating table. Had this incident occured in say Bumfuck, Kentucky Brody would be alive today. I think he would be pushing the early to mid 50's.
EVIL~! alkeiper Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 He would be 56 if he were alive today.
1234-5678 Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 And probably would've been one of the forefathers of ECW. Imagine Brody vs. Cactus...........
Guest Dynamite Kido Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 And probably would've been one of the forefathers of ECW. Imagine Brody vs. Cactus........... WOW.........just WOW
Guest Astro Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 46 year old Bruiser Brody vs 26 year old Cactus Jack.... I'd like to think Brody would've retired gracefully before that... Like after a Hansen Brody vs Gordy /Abdullah match or something
Guest Dynamite Kido Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 46 year old Bruiser Brody vs 26 year old Cactus Jack.... I'd like to think Brody would've retired gracefully before that... Like after a Hansen Brody vs Gordy /Abdullah match or something Hey, Hansen wrestled till he was older so I think Brody would have probably been alright. At least if his injuries weren't that bad.
Guest Krazy Karter Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Brody Is that Eddie and Chavo on the left?
Guest Your Olympic Hero Posted February 7, 2004 Report Posted February 7, 2004 I think Brody was still in his street clothes when he was stabbed. Yep... he wasn't taking a shower at the time. Whoever it was who stabbed him called him into the showers to "talk" and proceeded to stab him.
Guest Choken One Posted February 7, 2004 Report Posted February 7, 2004 *refrains from making poor Bradshaw joke*
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