TheDoctor
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<big>**24 years ago today. Bruiser Brody is stabbed multiple times backstage prior to a card in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and dies the next day; he had been scheduled to return to World Class Championship Wrestling two weeks later. **
Born Frank Goodish on June 18, 1946, Brody was one of professional wrestling's best big men, and one of its true renegades.
On July 16, 1988, Bruiser Brody was attacked in the dressing room prior to a card in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Brody died the following day on the operating table of multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, leaving behind a wife and a son. Fellow wrestler Jose Gonzales (Invader I) was charged with Brody's murder, but was later acquitted. Following Brody's murder, a number of wrestlers refused to work in the former wrestling hotbed of Puerto Rico as a protest of the verdict, which would ultimately cripple the Puerto Rican wrestling scene.</big>
Born Frank Goodish on June 18, 1946, Brody was one of professional wrestling's best big men, and one of its true renegades.
On July 16, 1988, Bruiser Brody was attacked in the dressing room prior to a card in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Brody died the following day on the operating table of multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, leaving behind a wife and a son. Fellow wrestler Jose Gonzales (Invader I) was charged with Brody's murder, but was later acquitted. Following Brody's murder, a number of wrestlers refused to work in the former wrestling hotbed of Puerto Rico as a protest of the verdict, which would ultimately cripple the Puerto Rican wrestling scene.</big>
