History Wrestling / BruiserBrody

* NoSell: Brody was notoriously selective with who he would sell for, but it added greatly to his tough guy character. It was noted in the book ''Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel'' that it took a huge effort just to make Brody go to one knee, but anyone who managed it would instantly get over. When Brody '''did''' sell though, it was an amazing sight. During a cage match in the mid 80s, Brody's opponent Wrestling/LexLuger apparently did something to annoy Brody (Match referee Bill Alfonso suggests that Luger tried to call the match, despite Brody being the veteran, while Luger himself has stated that Brody simply didn't like the reaction the match was getting, as the two were babyfaces in different territories). Brody's response was to stop selling ''completely'' and simple stare a hole through Luger, who threw punch after punch to no effect, before deciding simply to leave the cage.

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* ArchEnemy: [[Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher]], [[Wrestling/EdFarhat the Original Sheik]], [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]], Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, Wrestling/AntonioInoki, "Playboy" Gary Hart. In RealLife, Jose Gonzalez, who hated Brody so much that he eventually killed him.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] and {{professional wrestl|ing}}er from UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, MI under the name '''Bruiser Brody'''. He competed throughout the world, particularly in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, TX, the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, 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. He was tried in a Puerto Rican court and was acquitted on the grounds of [[KillingInSelfDefense self-defense]].

!!! "THESE TROPES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH BRUISER BRODY! HUSSS! HUSSS! HUSSS!":

* RealSongThemeTune: Used Music/LedZeppelin'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 Wrestling/LexLuger in a cage match in Florida in 1987. For years fans thought Brody was teaching a disrespectful Luger a lesson, taped razor blades onto his fists, and then forced a terrified Luger to leap out of the cage for his life. Even Bill Alfonso, the referee for the match, has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] Brody was teaching a lesson to Luger that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match. When the video of the match was finally shown the truth was revealed though. Brody simply stopped selling and Luger was more confused than scared. He grew more frustrated and simply left when Brody refused to work with him. After the match Luger asked Brody if he offended him, and he was told that he did nothing wrong. Brody did't like that they were both babyfaces and was having issue with the promoter and not Luger.

* NiceShoes: Introduced furry boots to professional wrestling.

* RealMenLoveJesus: According to Wrestling/SuperstarBillyGraham.

* 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 Wrestling/LexLuger in a cage match in Florida in 1987. For years fans thought Brody was teaching a disrespectful Luger a lesson, taped razor blades onto his fists, and then forced a terrified Luger to leap out of the cage for his life. Even Bill Alfonso, the referee for the match, has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] Brody was teaching a lesson to Luger that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match. When the video of the match was finally shown the truth was revealed though. Brody simply stopped selling and Luger was more confused than scared. He grew more frustrated and simply left when Brody refused to work with him. After the match Luger asked Brody if he did anything work or offended him, and he was told that he did nothing wrong. Brody did't like that they were both babyfaces and was having issue with the promoter and not Luger.

* 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 Wrestling/LexLuger in a cage match in Florida in 1987. For years fans thought Brody was teaching a disrespectful Luger a lesson, taped razor blades onto his fists, and then forced a terrified Luger to leap out of the cage for his life. Even Bill Alfonso, the referee for the match, has [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_919.shtml said]] Brody was teaching a lesson to Luger that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match. When the video of the match was finally shown the truth was revealed though. Brody simply stopped selling and Luger was more confused than scared. He grew more frustrated and simply left when Brody refused to work with him. After the match Luger asked Brody if he did anything work or offended him, and he was told that he did nothing wrong. Brody did't like that they were both badyfaces and was having issue with the promoter and not Luger.

* NoSell: Brody was notoriously selective with who he would sell for, but it added greatly to his tough guy character. It was noted in the book ''Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel'' that it took a huge effort just to make Brody go to one knee, but anyone who managed it would instantly get over. When Brody '''did''' sell though, it was an amazing sight. During a cage match in the mid 80s, Brody's opponent Wrestling/LexLuger apparently did something to annoy Brody (Match referee Bill Alfonso suggests that Luger tried to call the match, despite Brody being the veteran, while Luger himself has stated that Brody simply didn't like the reaction the match was getting, as the two were babyfaces in different territories). Brody's response was to stop selling ''completely'' and simple stare a hole through Luger, who threw punch after punch to no effect, before fleeing the cage prematurely in sheer terror.

* 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 Wrestling/LexLuger 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.

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* NoSell: Brody was notoriously selective with who he would sell for, but it added greatly to his tough guy character. It was noted in the book ''Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel'' that it took a huge effort just to make Brody go to one knee, but anyone who managed it would instantly get over. When Brody '''did''' sell though, it was an amazing sight. During a cage match in the mid 80s, Brody's opponent Wrestling/LexLuger did something to annoy Brody (Match referee Bill Alfonso suggests that Luger tried to call the match, despite Brody being the veteran). Brody's response was to stop selling ''completely'' and simple stare a hole through Luger, who threw punch after punch to no effect, before fleeing the cage prematurely in sheer terror.

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* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
*** BeardOfEvil: As a {{Heel}}
* BarbarianLonghair[=/=]BraidsOfAction

* 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, confirmed that it was not Calaway under the second mask.
* DownerEnding: His tragic death at the age of 42.

* {{Expy}}: The most blatant was Wrestling/JohnNord, who patterned his Barbarian and Berzerker gimmicks directly on Brody, taking the Berzerker gimmick into full-on Viking territory. [[Wrestling/JimmyJacobs "The Barbaric Berzerker" Jimmy Jacobs]] drew on both, right down to the furry boots and "HUSS!" chant.
** Wrestlers such as Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan, Wrestling/TheBarbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]], "Mean" Mark Callous (The Undertaker) and Wrestling/{{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'' 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 [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} 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.
** That said, Brody was also great with WrestlingPsychology and had a strong grounding in technical wrestling, which enabled him to have great matches with Terry Funk and Wrestling/RicFlair in the territory days, thus subverting this trope.

* NoIndoorVoice
* NoSell: Brody was notoriously selective with who he would sell for, but it added greatly to his tough guy character. It was noted in the book ''Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel'' that it took a huge effort just to make Brody go to one knee, but anyone who managed it would instantly get over. When Brody '''did''' sell though, it was an amazing sight. During a cage match in the mid 80s, Brody's opponent Wrestling/LexLuger did something to annoy Brody (Match referee Wrestling/BillAlfonso suggests that Luger tried to call the match, despite Brody being the veteran). Brody's response was to stop selling ''completely'' and simple stare a hole through Luger, who threw punch after punch to no effect, before fleeing the cage prematurely in sheer terror.

* RatedMForManly

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Had a notorious reputation among promoters for being hard to work with and refusing to job, and would in fact walk out if he didn't like a situation.
** Part of this was due to his secure spot in All Japan Pro Wrestling and not wanting word of a job he had done to get back to AJPW's boss, Giant Baba.

* WrestlingMonster

-->'''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 1: Busted Open!'' of the ''[[http://www.vcientertainment.com/Film-Categories/Wrestling?product_id=663 Wrestling Gold]]'' DVD series.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] and {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er 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/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, 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. He was tried in a Puerto Rican court and was acquitted on the grounds of [[KillingInSelfDefense self-defense]].

* RealMenLoveJesus: According to Billy Graham.

* DownerEnding: His murder at the age of 42.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] and {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er 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/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, 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. He was tried in a Puerto Rican court and (surprise) acquitted.

* RealMenLoveJesus: According to Wrestling/BillyGraham.

'''Frank Donald Goodish''' (1946-1988) was an American [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] and {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er 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/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, 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.

* MadEye

* NoSell: Brody was notoriously selective with who he would sell for, but it added greatly to his tough guy character. It was noted in the book ''Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel'' that it took a huge effort just to make Brody go to one knee, but anyone who managed it would instantly get over. When Brody '''did''' sell though, it was an amazing sight.

* ArchEnemy: [[Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher]], [[Wrestling/EdFarhat the Original Sheik]], [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]], Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, Antonio Inoki, "Playboy" Gary Hart. In RealLife, Jose Gonzalez, who hated Brody so much that he eventually killed him.

'''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/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, 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.

* PowerStable: Was a member of the following groups in his career.

* BashBrothers: With Stan Hansen, Wrestling/JimmySnuka, [[WrestlingFamily Kerry Von Erich]]

** The Sheik's Army (led by [[ForeignWrestlingHeel Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie]] in the [=AWA=] and also featuring Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, [[Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} Kokina Maximus [Yokozuna]]] and Ken Patera)

* 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.

** The House of Humperdink (the Florida version; led by Wrestling/SirOliverHumperdink and also featuring Bad News Allen)

* ArchEnemy: [[Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher "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. In RealLife, Jose Gonzalez, who hated Brody so much that he eventually killed him.

* BashBrothers: With Wrestling/StanHansen, Wrestling/JimmySnuka, [[WrestlingFamily Kerry Von Erich]]

** Wrestlers such as Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan, Wrestling/TheBarbarian (Sionne Vailahi), [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]], [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker "Mean" Mark Callous]] and Wrestling/{{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.

** That said, Brody was also great with WrestlingPsychology and had a strong grounding in technical wrestling, which enabled him to have great matches with Wrestling/TerryFunk and Wrestling/RicFlair in the territory days, thus subverting this trope.

** The Sheik's Army (led by [[ForeignWrestlingHeel Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie]] in the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation and also featuring Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, [[Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} Kokina Maximus [Yokozuna]]] and Ken Patera)
** The Royal Family (led by JJ Dillon in Florida and which also included Wrestling/TerryFunk, Wrestling/TheIronSheik and Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet.)

* TagTeam: The Miracle Power Combination, with Wrestling/StanHansen