History Wrestling / BruiserBrody

* CatchPhrase: "HUSS! HUSS! HUSS!"

* RedBaron: "King Kong", (in Japan) "''Choujuu''" ("Super Beast") (as Frank Goodish) "The Hammer"

* BadassBeard
** BeardOfEvil: As a {{Heel}}

* FollowTheLeader: Introduced furry boots into professional wrestling.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] and [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] from [[UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the Wrestling/American Wrestling Association, the St. Louis Wrestling Club, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Wrestling/StanHansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

-->'''[[{{Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} Dave Meltzer]]''': "Bruiser Brody is another one. He was in some of the great matches of all time, but he was also in some of the worst matches of all time when he was in the mood."- commenting on the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-h.html AWA World Heavyweight Champion]] Nick Bockwinkel (w/[[{{Wrestling/BobbyHeenan}} Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]])-Bruiser Brody] match on ''Volume 1: Busted Open!'' of the ''Wrestling Gold'' DVD series.\\


'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the Wrestling/American Wrestling Association, the St. Louis Wrestling Club, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Wrestling/StanHansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

** [[{{AwesomeMcCoolName}} Awesome [=McCool=] Name]]

* BadassLonghair

* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: Red River Jack, after losing a Loser Leaves Town match in Texas. Would appear as himself with a second RRJ when one was needed to "prove" Brody and Jack weren't the same person. The second RRJ was played by the late Rick Davidson of the Los Angeles-based Davidson Brothers. '''Rick Davidson'''. '''NOT''' [[{{Wrestling/TheUndertaker}} Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway]]. [[{{Wrestling/PaulBearer}} William "Percy Pringle"/"Paul Bearer" Moody]], who worked with both Brody and Calaway, has confirmed that it was not Calaway under the second mask.

* MoneyDearBoy: His {{Kayfabe}} explanation for working with Sheik Adnan, and, generally understood to be a motivating force for him in RealLife.

* RedBaron: "King Kong"

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the Wrestling/American Wrestling Association, the St. Louis Wrestling Club, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

* TagTeam: The Miracle Power Combination, with Stan "The Lariat" Hansen

* GarbageWrestler: Considered the greatest brawler in wrestling history, so much so that, after his death, Dave Meltzer of ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' renamed the "Best Brawler" Award, which Brody had won seven times, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_Observer_Newsletter_awards#Bruiser_Brody_Memorial_Award_.28Best_Brawler.29 The Bruiser Brody Memorial Award]]. Brody's death predated the debuts of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in Japan (1989) and of Wrestling/{{ECW}} in the U.S. (1992), however the wrestlers and fans of those promotions all point to Brody as being, along with Abdullah the Butcher and the Original Sheik, as one of the founding fathers of [=Hardcore=] wrestling.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the [[{{Wrestling/American Wrestling Association}} American Wrestling Association]], the St. Louis Wrestling Club, [[{{Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling}} All Japan Pro Wrestling]] and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

** Wrestlers such as "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Cactus Jack]], [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker "Mean" Mark Callous]] and [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Vader]] (who started out in the [=AWA=] in the 1980s as "The Baby Bull" Leon White and had some matches with Brody) all definitely drew a lot from Brody.

* GarbageWrestler: Considered the greatest brawler in wrestling history, so much so that, after his death, Dave Meltzer of ''[[{{Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} The Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' renamed the "Best Brawler" Award, which Brody had won seven times, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_Observer_Newsletter_awards#Bruiser_Brody_Memorial_Award_.28Best_Brawler.29 The Bruiser Brody Memorial Award]]. Brody's death predated the debuts of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in Japan (1989) and of [[{{Wrestling/ECW}} ECW]] in the U.S. (1992), however the wrestlers and fans of those promotions all point to Brody as being, along with Abdullah the Butcher and the Original Sheik, as one of the founding fathers of [=Hardcore=] wrestling.

* ArchEnemy: "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher, the Original Sheik, [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]], Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, Antonio Inoki, "Playboy" Gary Hart

** Wrestlers such as "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Cactus Jack]] and [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Vader]] (who started out in the [=AWA=] in the 1980s as "The Baby Bull" Leon White and had some matches with Brody) all definitely drew a lot from Brody.

* NoSell

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the [[{{Wrestling/American Wrestling Association}} American Wrestling Association]], the St. Louis Wrestling Club, [[{{Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling}} All Japan Pro Wrestling]] and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the Wrestling/American Wrestling Association, the St. Louis Wrestling Club, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

-->'''[[{{Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} Dave Meltzer]]''': "Bruiser Brody is another one. He was in some of the great matches of all time, but he was also in some of the worst matches of all time when he was in the mood."- commenting on the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-h.html AWA World Heavyweight Champion]] Nick Bockwinkel (w/[[{{Wrestling/BobbyHeenan}} Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]])-Bruiser Brody] match on ''Volume One: Busted Open!'' of the ''Wrestling Gold'' DVD series.\\

** AwesomeMcCoolName

-->'''[[{{Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} Dave Meltzer]]''': "Bruiser Brody is another one. He was in some of the great matches of all time, but he was also in some of the worst matches of all time when he was in the mood."- commenting on the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-h.html AWA World Heavyweight Champion]] Nick Bockwinkel (w/[[{{Wrestling/BobbyHeenan}} Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]])-Bruiser [=Brody=] match on ''Volume One: Busted Open!'' of the ''Wrestling Gold'' DVD series.\\


'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the [[{{Wrestling/American Wrestling Association}} American Wrestling Association]], the St. Louis Wrestling Club, [[{{Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling}} All Japan Pro Wrestling]] and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

** [[{{AwesomeMcCoolName}} Awesome McCool Name]]
* ArchEnemy: "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher, the Original Sheik, [[{{Wrestling/Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]], Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, Antonio Inoki, "Playboy" Gary Hart

* OneSteveLimit: Worked as King Kong Brody in St. Louis, [[http://www.rasslinrelics.com Dick the [=Bruiser=]'s World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis]] and other territories where Dick the [=Bruiser=] was established.

* RealSongThemeTune: Used [[{{Music/LedZeppelin}} Led Zeppelin]]'s "Immigrant Song" in Japan.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sometimes, rather than walk out if he didn't like a situation, he would do what he could to wreck it instead. Infamously refused to cooperate with a young Lex [=Luger=] in a cage match in Florida in 1987, scaring Luger enough for him to climb out of the cage and run away. Bill [=Alfonso=], the referee for the match, has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] that the lesson was that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match.

* [[{{AwesomeMcCoolName}} Awesome McCool Name]]

* AwesomeMcCoolName

* LightningBruiser: 6'8", 283 lbs. and could do dropkicks.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Was a big money draw in Japan.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sometimes, rather than walk out if he didn't like a situation, he would do what he could to wreck it instead. Infamously refused to cooperate with a young Lex [=Luger=] in a cage match in Florida in 1987, scaring Luger enough for him to climb out of the cage and run away. Bill [=Alfonso=], the referee for the match has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] that the lesson was that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match.

-->*'''BRUISER BRODY''': "I'll never find out!"- once when asked what it felt like to lose, as quoted in ''The Pictorial History of Wrestling: The Good The Bad and The Ugly'' by Bert Randolph Sugar and George Napolitano.\\



-->*'''[[{{Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} Dave Meltzer]]''': "Bruiser Brody is another one. He was in some of the great matches of all time, but he was also in some of the worst matches of all time when he was in the mood."- commenting on the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-h.html AWA World Heavyweight Champion]] Nick Bockwinkel (w/[[{{Wrestling/BobbyHeenan}} Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]])-Bruiser [=Brody=] match on ''Volume One: Busted Open!'' of the ''Wrestling Gold'' DVD series.\\


'''Frank Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] from [[{{UsefulNotes/Detroit}} Detroit, MI]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the [[{{Wrestling/American Wrestling Association}} American Wrestling Association]], the St. Louis Wrestling Club, [[{{Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling}} All Japan Pro Wrestling]] and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

* ArchEnemy: {{Kayfabe}}: Abdullah the Butcher, the Original Sheik, [[{{Wrestling/Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]], Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, "Playboy" Gary Hart

** Wrestlers such as the "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Cactus Jack]] and [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Vader]] (who started out in the [=AWA=] in the 1980s as "The Baby Bull" Leon White and had some matches with Brody) all definitely drew a lot from Brody.

** Wrestlers such as the Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Cactus Jack]] and [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Vader]] (who started out in the [=AWA=] in the 1980s as "The Baby Bull" Leon White and had some matches with Brody) all definitely drew a lot from Brody.

* OneSteveLimit: Worked as King Kong Brody in St. Louis and other territories where Dick the [=Bruiser=] was established.

-->*'''[[{{TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} Dave Meltzer]]''': "Bruiser Brody is another one. He was in some of the great matches of all time, but he was also in some of the worst matches of all time when he was in the mood."- commenting on the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-h.html AWA World Heavyweight Champion]] Nick Bockwinkel (w/[[{{Wrestling/BobbyHeenan}} Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]])-Bruiser [=Brody=] match on ''Volume One: Busted Open!'' of the ''Wrestling Gold'' DVD series.\\

* GarbageWrestler: Considered the greatest brawler in wrestling history, so much so that, after his death, Dave Meltzer of ''[[{{TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter}} The Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'' renamed the "Best Brawler" Award, which Brody had won seven times, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_Observer_Newsletter_awards#Bruiser_Brody_Memorial_Award_.28Best_Brawler.29 The Bruiser Brody Memorial Award]]. Brody's death predated the debuts of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in Japan (1989) and of [[{{Wrestling/ECW}} ECW]] in the U.S. (1992), however the wrestlers and fans of those promotions all point to Brody as being, along with Abdullah the Butcher and the Original Sheik, as one of the founding fathers of [=Hardcore=] wrestling.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sometimes, rather than walk out if he didn't like a situation, he would do what he could to wreck it instead. Infamously refused to cooperate with green rookie Lex [=Luger=] in a cage match in Florida in 1987, scaring Luger enough for him to climb out of the cage and run away. Bill [=Alfonso=], the referee for the match has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] that the lesson was that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match.

"I'll never find out!"- once when asked what it felt like to lose, as quoted in ''The Pictorial History of Wrestling: The Good The Bad and The Ugly'' by Bert Randolph Sugar and George Napolitano.

'''Frank Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[{{UsefulNotes}} football player]] and [[{{ProfessionalWrestling}} professional wrestler]] under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the [[{{Wrestling/American Wrestling Association}} American Wrestling Association]], the St. Louis Wrestling Club, [[{{Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling}} All Japan Pro Wrestling]] and the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Among his achievements were holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/int-h.html NWA International Heavyweight Title]], which later became part of All Japan's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/tc-h.html Triple Crown Heavyweight Title]], holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF Tag Team Title]] with his good friend Stan Hansen, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html NWA American (World Class) Heavyweight Title]] four times and holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-h.html NWA Central States (Kansas City) Heavyweight Title]]. While working for the WWC, wrestler Jose Gonzales, aka Invader #1, murdered Brody by stabbing him to death in the shower after a match on July 17, 1988.

** Wrestlers such as the Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Cactus Jack]] and [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Vader]] (who started out in the [=AWA=] in the 1980s as "The Baby Bull" Leon White and had some matches with Brody) both definitely drew a lot from Brody.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry