He literally bled to death on the table during the second operation. The phone rang. I looked at my watch. It was AM.
How would I say this without causing undue panic? I calmly explained to her that Frank had been in an accident, and she should get to PR as quickly as she could. I hung up the phone. I tossed and turned and finally just got up. I went down to the front desk around AM, and the girl on duty was an American from Chicago who spoke Spanish.
I asked her to call the hospital and find out what room Brody was in. The girl at the desk got tears in her eyes.
She told me that she was sorry. I just went outside the hotel and sat down for a while. How could this happen? It was all I could do to tell him, and he said cut the BS. Miguelito Perez came to pick me up, but when I told him the news, he refused to go too. They sent the fans home, telling them that they could use the tickets next week. I had been waiting all day for somebody to contact me. But nothing seemed to be happening. I then remembered the names of the detectives that the girl at the desk had given me when she made the call to the hospital that morning.
Atlas talked to one of the detectives on the phone and told him where we were. Tony left the hotel around PM. He did not return until PM. I started to get worried about him, but when he came back, he told them that they wanted to talk to me. Of course, I agreed.
I told them what I had seen, and afterward signed a sworn deposition as to my testimony. I could only swear as to what I actually saw, but I did my part. They told me that airfare and hotel would be arranged for me and that security would be provided.
I told my wife in detail everything that had happened. I got mad at her. How could something not be done? I told her to wait and see. I waited, and I saw that she was right. The first trial date was postponed. The second trial was scheduled for January , I still have my subpoena. Remember, the trial was to start on January 23rd? I received the subpoena on January 24th. I had already heard the verdict by the time I opened the subpoena.
We had the opportunity to interview Savio Vega back in October , where he opened up about being a witness to the murder of Bruiser Brody. Coming around a corner, we ran into Brody, who laughed at the sight of us. Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody were not only comrades in the ring, but at university, too.
In a shoot interview with RV Video , Hansen opened up about his friend. Slowly he comes to. Brody was actually the guy who took me out and showed me the Japanese culture and nightlife after the matches. I got into all their great food, and I adjusted to it. Atlas, who claims he saw the stabbing himself, recalled being totally shocked by the same scene, adding that police were also told that it was a fan who had stabbed Brody before he got in the dressing room.
It was more horrible than him laying on that table. The most horrible thing that happened on that night was going back to that dressing room and hearing laughter.
First, I couldn't believe they didn't cancel the show. I opened up the door and the blood on the floor ain't even dry yet. They in the dressing room laughing and joking and patting each other on the back talking about how great the matches were and what a wonderful show it is.
Many of the witnesses at the show were not able to testify in a San Juan court, as they received their summonses long after the trial had ended in Gonzalez's acquittal. Atlas says he was never contacted about the trial at all. It was 10 days late," Mantell said. Jose never testified. They believed what his attorney put out — that he was merely acting in self-defense. Fans in Puerto Rico believed wrestling was real. That was the major reason that Jose was acquitted.
The man who lost his life, stabbed to death in a shower, was one of the biggest stars in that era, one of the biggest stars of all-time in Japan and the man who WWE icon Mick Foley modelled his own style on. That man was born Frank Goodish but went by the ring name Bruiser Brody, a larger than life wildman who swung a chain and was notoriously stiff with opponents in the ring. He was killed by Puerto Rican star Jose Huertas Gonzalez, who wrestled as 'Invader I', Gonzalez was later acquitted of the murder by reason of self defence in a trial that was botched on account of a lack of key witnesses not being subpoenaed.
To set the scene for that apparent act of self defence Atlas, Mantel, Abdullah the Butcher who would have been Brody's opponent on the night set the scene and recount different tales of the evening. But what started the bad blood came years before, as Brody, who worked stiff to make audiences believe his character was every bit as hard as possible allegedly delivered a beating on a younger Gonzalez.
Mantel admits he never once wrestled Brody in a long career and in fact shied away from doing so. One of those victims, in the 70s, years before this happened was Gonzalez and arguably he might have never let it go. Again Atlas verified that story in graphic detail before repeating what in hindsight would be a bone-chilling threat was allegedly made.
By the time rolled around Bruiser Brody was 42 years of age and an established worldwide star but his two worlds — the wrestling world, and his personal world were separate.
He had married a New Zealand-born woman named Barbara, who he had met while she was working in a hotel in Australia and the pair had a son — Geoff, born in
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