Dark Side of the Ring 1x3

1. good evening, everyone.

2. Welcome to championship sports.

3. By now, all of you have heard ad

4. untimely death of bruiser brody,

5. very disappointing.

6. Wrestler, prior to a bout in.

7. His menacing looks gave him thef

8. a madman inside the ring, but ar

9. and others remember a very diff.

10. If you could picture a man comi,

11. 6'6, 6'7, 350-something pounds..

12. He looked like danger coming.

13. It was the kind of danger you w.

14. People would actually run from.

15. They'd just all run and scatter.

16. He had a chain.

17. He'd sometimes hit people with.

18. He was just a wild ing guy.

19. Bruiser brody's largee

20. and in-ring brutality deliverede

21. authenticity in professional wr.

22. Brody coming down the aisle is g

23. to your house, but you still wa.

24. He'd beat you up with 2x4s, cha,

25. anything that he could get his.

26. Bruiser brody was insane.

27. on July 16, 1988,

28. this insanity bled out of the re

29. when bruiser brody was violentld

30. in a locker room...

31. Moments before the opening bell.

32. In the world of professional wr,

33. it is still the only sport whers

34. live in two worlds,

35. where fantasy bleeds out into r.

36. hi, I'm mick foley.

37. In my career, there was one manr

38. I wish I could have had the oppy

39. to step into the ring with; tha.

40. The day that I got my hands on h

41. vintage brody matches was the dt

42. everything changed for me.

43. I wanted to be the next bruiser.

44. The stories I've heard surroundh

45. have always troubled me.

46. After 30 years, we tracked downs

47. willing to tell their version od

48. to chronicle the life and deathf

49. wrestling's greatest outlaws.

50. Just in case you don't know who,

51. I'm tony "mr. Usa" atlas.

52. Broad at the shoulder, narrow a,

53. tower of power, too sweet to be.

54. One of the last people to see bs

55. mr. Usa, tony atlas,

56. a former body builder turned wr,

57. and a current wwe hall of famer.

58. Okay, stand up. Take - clothesl.

59. Cameraman watch out.

60. Agh! Oh!

61. That was the shittiest finish I.

62. Dirty dutch mantell is one of t

63. most infamous villains in front.

64. Has the taste returned to your I

65. slapped it out just a few secon?

66. And one of wrestling's greatest.

67. I never did. I never, I never h.

68. Well, he beat the shit out of y.

69. And then, there's the madman fr,

70. abdullah the butcher.

71. Abdullah was also bruiser brodys

72. greatest in-ring nemesis.

73. This is it. And, you know, ty

74. of exactly what the world of prs

75. all about, the dark side, so to.

76. I've been in the business for 5.

77. What else can I say?

78. My name is abdullah the butcher.

79. I'm not a wrestler. I didn't gr.

80. I used karate. I used jiu-jitsu.

81. Okay? I'm not a wrestler.

82. I can beat you up any time that,

83. you understand?

84. And the guy behind the camera,

85. give me the fork so I can stab,

86. then you'll know...

87. Let me tell you something,

88. don't you ever say that me and.

89. We are not fakes.

90. We kept bringing 'em back and b,

91. and the people would say,

92. "when I seen that match, that w"

93. what would a match resemble betn

94. abdullah and bruiser brody?

95. A blood bath. Every night.

96. We were like killers. We kept p.

97. When you get abdullah the butchy

98. in the ring, gonna be a lot of.

99. 'cause abdullah had his fork...

100. And they did it every night. It.

101. Oh, I loved the fork.

102. I'd just stab him in the head,

103. stick it in his mouth. Do every.

104. Probably 85% of the match was o.

105. He struck fear in the hearts of.

106. When he went down to the ring,

107. people moved out of the way; th.

108. Brody's reputation in the busin,

109. he was a main eventer

110. and could make you a lot of mon.

111. So, that's why he was so popula.

112. It's why so many promoters wante

113. he could put asses in the seat.

114. he was a superstar, and at the,

115. he was one of the biggest stars,

116. early 80s, one of the biggest s.

117. Bruiser brody, he was a legend.

118. He was a legend... Back before.

119. oh my gosh.

120. Oh my...

121. But like, every time I come out,

122. I find something new.

123. Look at this, another one.

124. Some sentimental stuff associat.

125. There's a lot of it though.

126. Oh, here's a whole pile of phot.

127. I mean, take a look at that.

128. Oh, boy.

129. I first met frank in australia l

130. that I was working in.

131. I had no idea of his character e

132. I only saw frank goodish. I nev.

133. Frank was very quiet, very inte.

134. Even back in those days, just l.

135. So, he never lost sight of who.

136. He didn't become the character.

137. That's dad's football helmet.

138. In my own case, I spent 3 yearsh

139. the washington redskins in 1969.

140. I was an all-american high scho.

141. I went to school on an athletic.

142. - Okay, yeah. - Oh, okay. I'm s.

143. Um... Yeah, I did.

144. - You did? - Yeah.

145. I don't think it's good that ans

146. that I'm frank goodish.

147. Don't worry; that won't happen.

148. Frank was kind of a, little bit.

149. We were together for a long timd

150. he just came up with this idea,

151. "why don't we stop off in vegas"

152. he said, "I'm gonna tell you now

153. it is not gonna be an easy life"

154. out of a year, he maybe would oe

155. 3 months of that year.

156. It was a challenge, but you do.

157. When geoff was born, he changedh

158. 'cause then he wanted to do ford

159. he wanted to provide for his so.

160. So, it changed him,

161. even made him softer than who hs

162. when he was around his son.

163. They had a really good relation.

164. I do believe I've subconsciously

165. blocked a lot of things out, un.

166. So, a lot of the stories I hears

167. other people tell me about my d.

168. At the same time, it's hard to e

169. they're stories that people ared

170. I don't have a lot of stories o.

171. It was like this character that,

172. that it was separate from the p.

173. I would take him to the airportd

174. he would just be dad, husband...

175. Get out of the car, had his hai,

176. walked through those doors, tak,

177. he became bruiser brody on the,

178. and I could actually see the wh.

179. in July 1988,

180. frank departed for a booking in,

181. an isolated wrestling territoryr

182. its wild blood feuds and the ze.

183. it was blood city. It was blood.

184. Big shows, you'd have 3 or 4 ma,

185. because remember, I told you, p,

186. and they believed when you saw.

187. Ricky vargas wants to stop him.

188. Look! The blood is just coming!

189. The people are violent people.

190. They wanted violence.

191. People throw rocks at you, they,

192. they throw urine on you, they t.

193. They stoned me. They used to ta,

194. put glass or stones and throw '.

195. They want to see somebody get h.

196. They want some, to see somebody

197. get carried out on a stretcher.

198. Every place you go, they love v.

199. some weekly planners, 1987, 198.

200. Just his daily activities, it a.

201. His workout, workout schedule ad

202. where he's traveling to.

203. Ah, san juan, puerto rico, of a.

204. Yeah, I believe it was the, it r

205. the 17th that that happened, un.

206. In July 1988,

207. frank goodish left his family id

208. entered one of the most violents

209. in the world.

210. His family could not have imagie

211. the last time that they would s.

212. In the summer of 1988, bruiser y

213. in texas and entered one of thet

214. violent wrestling territories I.

215. It wasn't only his puerto ricane

216. waiting for his return, but somd

217. a bitter longstanding grudge.

218. The world wrestling council is s

219. main wrestling promotion, whichy

220. wrestlers gorilla monsoon, vict,

221. and carlos colon.

222. Carlos colon! Carlos colon!

223. carlos colon was the boss.

224. He's also a wwe hall of famer n.

225. He was probably as big a star a.

226. Carlos colon's right-hand man w,

227. a local wrestler celebrated in g

228. as invader #1.

229. Gonzalez also acted as the comp,

230. the person in charge of the cred

231. outcomes of wrestling shows.

232. Frank understood the value of hr

233. consistently appearing as an uns

234. as a way to keep them coming ba.

235. He took this aggression to a nel

236. when he wrestled a young jose gz

237. when gonzalez was hoping to make

238. a big impression in the wwf.

239. brody and invader,

240. they didn't really care for eac.

241. Their personalities did not mes.

242. Even their matches, you could ts

243. something not quite right with.

244. He was a pretty decent guy - if.

245. If he didn't like you, he would.

246. But I just seen brody take peope

247. and just beat 'em unmercifully.

248. He would just beat 'em to death.

249. Well, I've tried to piece it to,

250. what brought this on.

251. Let's go back in the past, in t.

252. They were grooming - I heard - ,

253. to be like the next puerto rica.

254. Bruiser brody came in and had az

255. and just beat the shit out of h.

256. He ate him up.

257. I mean, his whole face was swol,

258. his head was swollen up; looked.

259. Brody beat him so bad that s.D.

260. Had to take him to the hospital.

261. S.D., "special delivery" jones,

262. We put him in the car, and s.D.,

263. and he turned to s.D. Jones and,

264. "one day I'm gonna kill that ma"

265. he was angry.

266. I mean, his head looked like a.

267. Bruiser brody was worried about,

268. and that was bruiser brody.

269. Once the people see you get bea,

270. that brand - and he knows this -

271. the brand becomes kind of... Vi.

272. And he, he didn't want that to d

273. that's why, that's why he acted.

274. I don't know about the other pr.

275. I only know about bruiser brody.

276. And when I go in the ring, it dr

277. I'm in texas or in new york, anr

278. whether people like me or disli,

279. I'm gonna be just as aggressive.

280. But I also heard that brody was,

281. and he had wanted to invest in,

282. and he had puerto rico in mind.

283. And there was an owner, a part,

284. a minority owner named victor q,

285. who had 10% or something,

286. but a lot of it was owned by go.

287. And I think victor quinones wasl

288. between monsoon to sell his sha,

289. which would have made brody pro.

290. I think he bought part of that.

291. They wanted his money, but they.

292. And brody ain't that type of go.

293. Brody had his opinions.

294. If you didn't like 'em, too bad.

295. - Can you tell us your name? - .

296. I was the booker for world clas.

297. I was a little worried because s

298. going to puerto rico to wrestle.

299. Frank said they owed him about,d

300. 20, $25,000.

301. And, he had asked for the money.

302. He had been waiting for the mon.

303. And he told me before he left,

304. "remember I said this: I'm comi"

305. and he said, "if I have to beat,

306. I'm getting my money."

307. brody had mentioned to people tt

308. if he took over, he was gonna g.

309. And also, jose gonzalez had just

310. his 3-year-old daughter.

311. She died in a swimming pool acc,

312. she drowned, about 3 months ear.

313. Now, his job is being threatened

314. he doesn't like brody in the fi.

315. So, you add all those ingredien,

316. it's like fire and gasoline.

317. An explosion was gonna happen,

318. ah... Can I please tell the sto?

319. I beg you, 'cause I want to tel.

320. - Off-screen: Okay. - I want to.

321. - I... See... - Off-screen: Oka.

322. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because-

323. for two days, I've been talking,

324. and I want to tell this story s.

325. I've been carrying this story a.

326. How many years now?

327. This is how me and brody starte.

328. - Off-screen: Yeah? - Yeah, yea.

329. We were working out at the gym,

330. the same routine we did.

331. You know, his last day here on.

332. I go to the gym every morning a,

333. me and him, we worked out toget,

334. and he said, "tony, want to go "

335. so I say, "oh sure, I'll go get"

336. and then he turned to me at bre,

337. "I waited a long time to get in"

338. so I just got the impression th,

339. just maybe, that he bought in t.

340. And he said, "you are gonna see"

341. we was at the hotel, and bruisel

342. was sitting on the steps outsid.

343. And I said, "brody, I figured y"

344. he said, "I'm waiting on jose g.

345. He's supposed to pick me up."

346. and I'm— right then I said, "w"

347. why would jose, the booker, lea?

348. And I said, "you can ride with "

349. so we went to the show and trafg

350. into the stadium 'cause the car,

351. so you know it was gonna be a s.

352. And, we hopped out and we took s

353. to where the dressing rooms wer.

354. Now, looking back on it, it was,

355. 'cause when I walked in that ro,

356. I got a strange feeling. But jo.

357. I said, "he's here."

358. as soon as I come to the door,

359. I saw the 3 of them sitting the:

360. Jose, carlos colon, and victor,

361. they were sitting in a football.

362. Yeah, it kind of seemed a littl.

363. 'cause I, I've never really see.

364. And it didn't look like they we.

365. They were just sitting there,

366. which was even more strange.

367. Gonzalez gets up from his seat,

368. looked me straight in the face,

369. Never looked at brody, never lo,

370. and he walked out of the dressi.

371. And brody sat down right beside,

372. and I sat there maybe 5 minutes.

373. And that feeling of tension,

374. it just got stronger.

375. So I said, "I gotta get out of.

376. I gotta move. I gotta— somethi.

377. Maybe if I move around it'll go"

378. so, I get up and walk out, I go,

379. and I'm watching the crowd come.

380. So, I have my art pad. I.

381. I sat in my chair and I started.

382. Brody came over and he looked a.

383. He said, "that is frickin' fant"

384. he's getting all excited,

385. big smile is on his face and ev.

386. And he said, "I wonder if you c"

387. so he opened up his little pouc,

388. and pulled out a picture of his.

389. Jose came back into the dressin.

390. I looked up, and jose was stand.

391. And he had a towel over his han.

392. "brody, can I talk to you for a"

393. just like that.

394. "can I talk to you for a minute"

395. and brody said, "yeah," and he.

396. And that's where it happened.

397. It's not unusual to discuss mat,

398. but on this evening, the convern

399. brody and gonzalez would desceno

400. an unthinkable nightmare.

401. In puerto rico, before his matc,

402. bruiser brody is summoned to a h

403. talent booker jose gonzalez.

404. There was a history of bad bloo,

405. and wrestler tony atlas was wit.

406. He had a bag in his hand,

407. a picture of his son in this ha.

408. And when he turned away with th,

409. that's when I noticed carlos st.

410. As I'm looking at carlos, I hea.

411. "aaah!"

412. so I looked up.

413. Brody was halfway hunched over.

414. I thought jose punched him in t;

415. that's what I thought.

416. That's the first thought that c,

417. "damn, he hit brody."

418. I said, "oh, this is gonna be a"

419. so, then he hollers again, "aah"

420. I looked at jose's face and his.

421. Then I saw the knife.

422. The knife went in the air like,

423. with blood dripping off of it.

424. I sprung up out of my chair, wrd

425. brody's waist, just like this.

426. I yank him back just in the nicm

427. his throat getting cut.

428. And because I pull him back, thd

429. cut his ponytail off.

430. That's how sharp that knife was.

431. Carlos shoot right by me, and hd

432. pushed him up against the wall,

433. "no, jose. No, jose."

434. and carlos was keeping people a,

435. telling the wrestlers, "y'all s"

436. so I take brody, and I take himd

437. I lay him down on the ground.

438. I felt his intestines and blood.

439. This whole arm was drenched in.

440. And he looked up at me, he said,

441. "brother, don't let 'em hurt me.

442. Please, brother. Don't let 'em "

443. he said, "don't let them!" not!

444. That's why I didn't know who th.

445. Who else is involved in this, I?

446. I said, "ain't no ing body "

447. carlos tried to approach brody.

448. I told carlos, I said, "don't b.

449. I will knock your ing"

450. he said, "tony, calm down." I s"

451. I said, "y'all just stabbed thi"

452. "I had nothing to do with it."

453. I said, "you're a goddamn liar",

454. "y'all work together."

455. so then, brody tugged at my leg,

456. and he said, "let him over."

457. So as I make my way back,

458. I could hear the noise.

459. And it was kind of dark in ther,

460. but I could see the lights in t.

461. In the dressing room. Something,

462. and that's when I asked mark yo.

463. He said, "invader! Invader stab"

464. the dressing room is in a panic,

465. and I see brody laying, laying.

466. And carlos is leaning over him,

467. He said, "brody, is there anyth"

468. that's what carlos asked brody.

469. Brody said, "just take care of "

470. and I don't know what carlos wa,

471. but I'm sure he was saying, "ha.

472. We're gonna get you help. We're"

473. but I do remember brody lookingd

474. telling carlos, "tell my wife I"

475. that's the only thing I heard h.

476. So that right there tells me the

477. a lot of faith in his own survi.

478. The shower had a door on it tha.

479. It was translucent that you coue

480. light behind it and figures.

481. Invader never came out of that.

482. He never came out.

483. And he was in there with jovicas

484. part owner of the company,

485. and they were screaming at each.

486. There's nothing I can really do.

487. He walked out of the shower, wa,

488. went to his bag, got his keys,

489. And his shirt, they said, was t.

490. Which tells me that whatever ha,

491. that it was a physical confrontn

492. with brody ripping the shirt.

493. It took at least 35 to 45s

494. for the ambulance to get there.

495. They tried to put brody on the.

496. They couldn't lift him.

497. Brody was about 300-something p.

498. He was too heavy.

499. So, I got down into a squat pos,

500. squatted all the way down, and.

501. And he looked up at me and said,

502. "don't you drop me," and I said,

503. "don't worry, brother, I curl m"

504. so I pulled him gently and laid.

505. The old man walked back to the e

506. to shut and lock the door. He s,

507. "before I shut the door, is thet

508. want to go with him to keep his"

509. so I said, "I'll go," and I jume

510. and I remember guys looking at,

511. "what in the is wrong with?

512. He should stay out of this."

513. you could almost feel they're t.

514. Nobody was saying nothing, but l

515. they were thinking, "what is wr"

516. like I've said before, I'm not.

517. Never had been. Probably never.

518. But I did go and say a lot of p,

519. whatever worth it could be, if.

520. It couldn't hurt.

521. As we were sitting in the ambul,

522. brody was laying there, and I s.

523. I mean, I couldn't hold back th.

524. And I, and I sung this song,

525. (singing) "if heaven ain't a lo,

526. I don't want to go."

527. my voice got choked up and ever.

528. I just told him, I said, "you'r"

529. I said, "I'm gonna stay with yo"

530. I said, I'm with you, man. I'm "

531. there's an old saying in profes:

532. "consider yourself lucky if yout

533. with one true friend."

534. on this night, brody had that t,

535. but he would need more than tha.

536. Tony atlas finally made it to th

537. bruiser brody in critical condi.

538. Although atlas's struggle to sae

539. was far from over.

540. We get to the hospital and he lr

541. probably about 15 or 20 minutes.

542. I got frickin' tired of waiting,

543. so I finally got one doctor tha.

544. And I said, "I've been telling.

545. How come nobody's going to see "

546. he told me, he said,

547. "a stabbing here is like a cold.

548. It's no big deal."

549. he said, "well, I will get to h"

550. and turned to walk away from me.

551. I grabbed him around the waist,

552. yanked him up all the way up on,

553. and I carried the man to brody.

554. So finally, he looked at brody.

555. He lifted brody's hand up and is

556. the whole time, just like this.

557. At the same time he lifts his h,

558. I remember I was taking his sho.

559. When I saw his feet, and it was.

560. Oh no, no, no, no, no!

561. 'cause I knew this is real bad.

562. So, I said, "doctor, please, ge.

563. You gotta go now. You got—"

564. he started calling on people, ".

565. We need some help here. We need"

566. I got so fricking mad when I sa,

567. that I punched the wall.

568. I buried my fist probably about;

569. that's how hard I hit that wall.

570. While chaos and confusion eruptf

571. bruiser brody's stabbing, rumord

572. word reached across the stadiumr

573. in a second dressing room.

574. The doctor came and says, ah...

575. Brody was cut, or stabbed, or w.

576. I said, "come on," you know, I.

577. In my opinion, I thought... He.

578. But when the doctor told me...

579. Then I says, "holy shit,"

580. 'cause the doctor wouldn't be l.

581. And that was it.

582. Brody was... He'd already been.

583. But the police walked in and th,

584. "it's just another crazy wild w"

585. they didn't think it was real.

586. I was banging on the operating,

587. "what the is going on in t?

588. What's going on in there?"

589. and the doctor came out, and he,

590. "tony, he had two 8-inch cuts."

591. he said, "we got his intestines"

592. he said, "the only problem we'rw

593. is that his liver was sliced."

594. he told me he was going to be o.

595. He said, "he's stable."

596. he said, "but what you need to,

597. you need to go home because evee

598. is more afraid of you."

599. I wanted to be as far away fromt

600. ing dressing room as I coul.

601. Then I saw invader walk in, and.

602. He continued business like noth.

603. I don't know why he came back.

604. I really don't.

605. I'm thinking, man, what ing.

606. The thing that was so horrible..

607. Was when I got back to the dres.

608. It was more horrible than the s.

609. It was more horrible than him l.

610. The most horrible thing that hat

611. was going back to that dressingm

612. and hearing laughter.

613. First, I couldn't believe they ;

614. that was the first thing.

615. And opening up the door,

616. and the blood on the floor ain',

617. and they in the dressing room l,

618. and joking, and patting each otk

619. talking about how great the matd

620. what a wonderful show it is.

621. I took the freaking chair and is

622. the damn hallway.

623. there was a policeman that said,

624. "hey, hey, hey. Calm down. Calm"

625. he said, "did you see what happ"

626. I said, "hell, yeah! I saw what"

627. he said, "did you get a look?

628. Did you get a look at the fan t"

629. I said, "what were you told?"

630. he said, "everybody in here said

631. before he got in the dressing r,

632. that a wrestling fan stabbed hid

633. he stumbled into the dressing r"

634. I said, "that's a damn lie."

635. I said, "that son of a bitch sie

636. is the one that stabbed him."

637. he said, "you mean, vader?" I s.

638. That sucker right there. That's"

639. and I said, "ask everybody in t"

640. he said, "they're all telling d"

641. I said, "oh, they're all in"

642. I said, "he's the son of a bitc"

643. he was telling the cops, "hey,

644. that's the guy you need to "

645. and he pointed to jose gonzalez.

646. I remember he was sitting right.

647. He was putting his wrestling geg

648. like nothing happened; that's tt

649. messed with my head so much.

650. It was like nothing happened.

651. If you're a policeman and you co

652. a situation that you think coul.

653. They didn't think it was real.

654. Tony knew it was real, so they y

655. engaging each other from differ;

656. that's why the disconnect.

657. In professional wrestling, the n

658. fiction and reality is intentio.

659. As the night's events continued,

660. it would be nearly impossible fo

661. tell the difference, or to know.

662. while bruiser brody was fightin,

663. tony atlas' eye witness accountg

664. was making the rounds.

665. Carlos colon, your time is over.

666. That night, I wrestled iron she,

667. the night of the murder. I just.

668. I, I just went in the match.

669. He locked up with me, he said, "

670. ah, "the doctor said he's gonna"

671. and he said, "these ing wre,

672. they told me that they're dange"

673. I said, "jose gonzalez did it, "

674. the sheik just straightened rig,

675. just like that, "that ing z

676. vader er killed the k"

677. he rolled right out of the ringt

678. straight back to his locker roo.

679. We only wrestled for maybe one.

680. I go to my room, and a guy name,

681. they called him tnt, he said, ".

682. I went to your room and got you"

683. I said, "for what?"

684. he said, "don't go to your room.

685. They are looking for you becaus"

686. so, I took my bag, and I went d,

687. and I walked the beach the whol.

688. I tried to lay down and get som,

689. but kept waking up every time I.

690. I'd do, go— kept look—

691. I'm paranoid as hell, now.

692. I go back to that hotel, walk td

693. I told the girl and I said, "li,

694. if brody gets any calls to his,

695. please put 'em through to my ro"

696. they said, "okay."

697. The phone started ring,

698. kept ringing, ringing, ringing.

699. By this time, it's 1 o'clock in,

700. I said, "ah, I'm gonna answer am

701. a piece of my mind."

702. so, I picked up the phone and t.

703. And she said, "this is nancy co"

704. well, nancy colon is carlos col.

705. "I'm calling to let you know thd

706. I think you better come to puer"

707. so, I call the hotel and they p.

708. She said, "who is this?"

709. I said, "well, this is, this is"

710. and she said, "well, what happe"

711. and I knew it was pretty seriou,

712. "well, we— brody had an accide,

713. and it's pretty serious."

714. and that, "maybe you should com"

715. he didn't have any details.

716. After I got the call, I tried t.

717. I couldn't sleep.

718. Like I said, the adrenaline was.

719. About 8 o'clock, I get up.

720. I go downstairs to the front de.

721. I said, "can you do me a favor?"

722. she said, "yeah, what do you ne"

723. I said, "can you call the hospit

724. my friend brody is in?" she sai"

725. so, she calls out there and she.

726. And I, I hear, "luchador," I he"

727. and then she starts crying.

728. And I look at her, and she said,

729. "I'm sorry. Your friend didn't "

730. I said, "what?"

731. she said, "no, he, he died last"

732. abdullah told me at the meeting.

733. I slept on the beach the whole.

734. So now, I'm going back to the h.

735. I saw abdullah and some of the.

736. And they said, "tony, we're havd

737. they're waiting on you to tell.

738. Hotel? Hell, no. No.

739. No, sir. No.

740. He lying.

741. Maybe they did, but not me. You?

742. He lied to you, if that's what.

743. I'm telling you what happened.

744. I had 5% of the business. You s?

745. In a way that people did not wa.

746. Well, if you own some of the te,

747. who's gonna come and say, "oh,

748. "this guy done this, this guy d?

749. They were... In their own littl.

750. So, why, why would they come an?

751. Brody was a friend and I didn't.

752. Be in all the, the "gossip," wh.

753. Nobody heard me say shit.

754. That's a shame.

755. That's a damn shame that he don.

756. Dutch mantell, ask him. He was.

757. I think we all met...

758. In somebody's room.

759. And somebody said, "man, are ths

760. or what?" I mean, "a man died. "

761. I just started thinking, in thi?

762. That's why I left.

763. I said, "well, I saw it."

764. so I go down and I make my repot

765. to the police department. He sa,

766. "your story is different than e"

767. he said, "we will be contacting"

768. he said, "now that we got a wit,

769. we're going to arrest him."

770. And they took me and I g,

771. and then, all through the nights

772. from the, from the wrestlers.

773. He did say, he said,

774. "you tell carlos colon we run t"

775. I think they asked did I see a.

776. I did not see a weapon. As a ma,

777. no weapon was ever recovered.

778. That weapon, whatever was used -

779. what knife was used - has never.

780. I got my bag, I went to the air.

781. And I left.

782. Then I made arrangements.

783. I said, "I gotta go to the airp"

784. got on the plane with geoff. Ge,

785. waiting to see if anybody was g.

786. So, I looked around and here's.

787. I was going, and this lady and,

788. and she said, "oh, abdullah,

789. you don't know me, but I'm fran"

790. she says, "how's he doing?" I s"

791. she said, "well, how's he doing"

792. I said, "they didn't tell you?"

793. "tell me what?" I says, "he's g"

794. and she grabbed me.

795. and she says, "oh, no."

796. all you thinking about is survi.

797. All I thought about was I saw a,

798. holding on and dying with a pic.

799. He never took that picture down.

800. When I put him on the ambulance,

801. he had the picture in his hand.

802. He laying on the floor, he's st.

803. He go in the operating room, he-

804. he never put that picture down,

805. Never!

806. The irony of brody's greatest ns

807. was only the beginning of the us

808. that would follow.

809. Alone with her son in a foreign,

810. and dealing with the shocking cf

811. her husband's death, barbara goh

812. found the strength to make the.

813. Nancy was carlos colon's wife.

814. She took me to the morgue, and,

815. everybody is speaking spanish.

816. They took me to the window, andt

817. see all these bodies in there.

818. And then, of course, the realit.

819. (whooshing) boom.

820. Just really started to sink in.

821. Not sure how long it took befor.

822. We were in a hotel room and I jg

823. just incessantly for hours, hou.

824. Yelling, screaming.

825. I still didn't realize the magn,

826. and it probably took...

827. I don't know how long, 10, 15,

828. When everything happened it was,

829. what do I do?

830. How do I bring him back to the?

831. And it was like I heard his voi,

832. and it was like he was saying,

833. "barbara, you know what to do,",

834. I need to cremate him down here.

835. There was a very simple ceremon.

836. I mean, nobody was there except,

837. and some of the wrestlers,

838. and some of the puerto ricans a.

839. Geoff picked out his dad's cask.

840. It was blue.

841. - off-screen: Start there. - Ab.

842. From what I hear, he was taken n

843. to a local precinct, never was.

844. Bail was made for him immediatey

845. some big businessman there,

846. and he walked back home, same d.

847. I know that the...

848. I'm not even gonna say his name.

849. I know that the attacker did it.

850. From all I can hear from everyb,

851. the whole court case was a sham.

852. I mean, do you think there was?

853. No, we— not— the only guys thd

854. was jovica and I, and we didn't.

855. You know, we told the judge in,

856. we said what really... What we.

857. We didn't really— 'cause I did.

858. I didn't see any weapon. I didn.

859. A guy named tony rumble, the bo,

860. banging on the door, said, "ton,

861. put your channel— put the tv o"

862. certain, certain channel.

863. "they're talking about the puer"

864. I flip the tv on, I see jose on,

865. coming out of the court house.

866. I said, "what, they're having a'

867. he said, "no, they had a trial.

868. They let him go for self-defens"

869. you gotta be kidding me. They n.

870. Never. Never did. Never did.

871. Finally, my subpoena came in th,

872. and I already knew the verdict,

873. by the time my subpoena arrived.

874. It was ten days late.

875. That's why the verdict came bac,

876. but not guilty.

877. And jose never testified, but tt

878. his attorney put out that he wat

879. merely acting in self-defense.

880. The feds in puerto rico believe;

881. that was the major reason that,

882. because they believed brody was,

883. this wild-looking psychopath, h.

884. And his defense was self-defens.

885. Do you believe it was really se?

886. I don't know, really. I don't k.

887. You know, I respect the law. So.

888. I, I really... You know, I... I-

889. I don't want to talk about thist

890. makes me sad.

891. one month after bruiser brody's,

892. all japan pro wrestling hosted,

893. inviting both barbara and her se

894. honored in front of the 17,000.

895. The honor that they respected,

896. and being in that ring, and hea,

897. and hearing everybody chanting,

898. this whole building chanting hi,

899. "brody! Brody! Brody!"

900. and I'm just standing there in,

901. and it was the most, I mean,

902. just to know how much he was re.

903. May peace be with yo.

904. Bruiser brody was a brawler of d

905. will always live on as such in d

906. of professional wrestling.

907. I didn't ever guess that I was e

908. a professional wrestler.

909. Once I started in professional,

910. learned the ropes.

911. If I had it to do all over agai,

912. I think that I would probably ey

913. 3 years in the nfl and devote tg

914. because it has been that good t.

915. He was one of its biggest stars,

916. and is considered one of the als

917. in japanese wrestling history,

918. where he is still celebrated to.

919. yeah, justice would be great.

920. Some personal justice would be,

921. more gratifying than some legal.

922. Um...

923. Mr. Brody.

924. Every dog has his day.

925. You cannot kill a legend.

926. See, legends never die.

927. So, if that's was jose's thing,

928. was to kill a legend...

929. he failed miserably.

930. Nobody knows the exact circumst,

931. including the words - if any -

932. exchanged between frank goodishz

933. on the night of brody's death.

934. It remains one of wrestling's dd

935. most intriguing mysteries.

936. join us next time, as we contine

937. untold stories of professional.

938. - I wish he was here. - Off-scr.

939. I wish he was here.

940. He dished it out. I dished it o.

941. And we kept going, and going, a.

942. Abdullah the butcher

943. knows that bruiser brody is the.

944. brody. Ah, shit.