Bruiser Brody.               
 

                                                   BIO.
Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish was one of the most wildest, most insane, and most impersonated man ever to step into the ring. The 6'8 foot, 325 lb New Mexican wildman with long curly black hair, scraggly beard and furry boots brawled with such reckless abandon and fury that he is a true legend in every country he performed in.
Bruiser Brody is one of the greatest if not the greatest brawlers the sport has ever known.
Frank Goodish was born in Pennsylvania and moved to New Mexico during his youth, to start his career as "Bruiser" Frank Brody in 1973. By September of 1974, he won his first championship---the NWA U.S. {Tri-State version] Tag-team titles with Stan Hansen. This was the beginning of what would be, from that point onward, a life long friendship. By 1975, Brody was in main event matches with the great Bruno Sammartino....not bad for only two years in the sport
Brody wrestled with such unpredictabley and force....he was banned [for real] from a couple of promotions for wildly swinging chairs and chains at anyone unfortunate enough to get too close to him, including the fans at ringside. He was an instant success in Japan, and has been considered a "wrestling God" there since his Japanese debut in a tag match with [King] Curtis Iukea vs Giant Baba and The Masked Destroyer in January of 1979.
During his fifteen years in the sport, Brody wrestled as both a hated villian and a loved hero. He feuded with the best in the business during his time as a warrior of the ring.......Dick The Bruiser [for the right to the name "Bruiser", which he lost....ever wonder why Brody was sometimes called "King Kong"?], Bruno Sammartino, the Funks, Ric Flair, Abdullah the Butcher, the Von Erich Family, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, Harley Race and many others. Probably his most remembered feud, though, was against the late Andre the Giant. At his size, Brody was a legitimate physical challenge for Andre, and he gave the Giant some of the toughest matches of his career, during their on-again, off-again 10-year-feud. It was one of the best feuds of wrestling's history and of either man's career.
 

                                              TITLE HISTORY.
Among other tournaments and championship's, Brody won the NWA Western States title in 1975, the Florida Heavyweight title, four NWA North American titles, three Texas Tag Team titles between 1977-79, the Texas Brass Knuckles title, four American Tag-team titles [three with Kerry Von Erich, one with Erine Ladd] the Central States Tag-team title [with Ladd] and the Central States Heavyweight title in 1980, three NWA International Heavyweight titles between 1981-1988, the Australian World Brass Knuckles title, the World Wrestling Asscoation World Heavyweight title, the PWF Tag-team titles [with Hansen], the WCCW TV title in 1986, and the last title he would ever hold, the NWF International Heavyweight title in 1987.
 
 
 

                                                HIS DEATH.
As was the case everywhere he wrestled, Bruiser Brody was one of the biggest stars/draws in the Puerto Rican-based World Wrestling Council. He had legendary feuds/matches there with Abdullah, Carlos Colon, and the Invader. But his feud with the Masked Invader [Jose Gonzales, co-owner of WWC] proved to be the last of his career. On the 17/07/1988 Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish was wrestling for the WWC promotion in Puerto Rico, when he was suddenly and fatally stabbed in the shower room by Jose Gonzales aka Invader III. Gonzales was arrested and held for questioning, but because Goodish was American, none of the Puerto Rican wrestlers would testify and the American ones [specifically Doug Furnas and Dutch Mantel] were afraid for their own lives, if they did. Officially the murder was unsolved and the motives unknown, but it is a fact that Jose Gonzales did the killing. The lack of conviction is a legal technicality at best. The motive however, will never be known.
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.
 
 

                                       Memories.