Jose Gonzalez (wrestler)

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Jose Huertas Gonzalez, better known as Invader #1 to the wrestling fans in Puerto Rico is a pro wrestler that wrestled in the United States for the WWE and around the world especially in Puerto Rico since 1973 for both the World Wrestling Council & the International Wrestling Association.

Height: 5'10

Weight: 220 pounds

Hometown:San Lorenzo ,Puerto Rico

Year Started:1966

Year Retired:2006

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[edit] WWC Career(1973-2002)

Huertas started in 1966 wrestling for Vincent J. McMahon and the World Wide Wrestling Federation(today known as World Wrestling Entertainment)WWWF as a jobber. When Victor Jovica & Carlos Colon opened the WWC in 1973 Huertas went back to Puerto Rico to work for the company staying for 29 years wrestling foes such as Joe LeDuc ,Pierre Martel,Bruiser Brody ,Abdullah the Butcher ,Dutch Mantell ,Chicky Starr ,Ray Gonzalez among othersuntil problems between him & both Jovica & Colon started so he left WWC after 29 years being one of the headliners of the company and took one year off to rest and plan his next move.

[edit] IWA Career(2003-2006)

Huertas debuted in the International Wrestling Association as a surprise in June 2003 and announced that he will be the special referee between then-champion Ray Gonzalez vs Gran Apolo at Summer Attitude 2003. Almost as Huertas debuted in the IWA his ex-WWC foe Savio Vega started challenging Invader #1 to fight him having referee Herberito Lopez to don an Invader #1 mask to mock him. They wrestled at IWA Christmas in Puerto Rico later that year in a barbed wire match which Gonzalez won. 2004 started off him being confused as why the Millenium Family was going the heel route as Ray Gonzalez ,El Profe ,El Diamante, Thunder & Lightning was attacking fan favorites as Ricky Banderas, Gran Apolo ,Glamour Boy Shane and others. Teamed with his arch-enemy Savio Vega to feud with Thunder & Lightning for the rest of the fall 2004. Spent the rest of 2005 as the "Coach" of the New Generation of the IWA leading Chicano to the Heavyweight title over Shane at Juicio Final in Caguas, Puerto Rico on April 9 ,2005. Resumed his feud with Savio during the year as well and poped out of the La Cruzz del Diablo's casket and caused Chicano to lose the title on November 11 ,2005 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Served once again as special referee to the Vega-Chicano match at IWA Christmas in Puerto Rico 2005 event and the match went to a no-contest and Chicano turned heel by attacking Gonzalez. 2006 started off with Invader #1 wrestling Chicano at Histeria Borquia on January 6, 2006 and recieving a wound that needed 58 stiches to close and a black eye. Feuded with Chicano all over the island. Turned heel later on in the year by teaming with Savio Vega to attack Ray Gonzalez while he was handcuffed to the top rope and giving "Mr. Raytings" several heart punches and bloodying him as well. Spent the remained of 2006 as part of the "Inhumans" team with Vega until September 16 ,2006 in Cayey ,PR when He turned on Savio's La Compania by attacking Mikel Judas and counting very fast the pin when Ray Gonzalez had Judas covered and helped him regain the held-up title. Had his last match at IWA Hardcore Weekend on October 16 ,2006 when he and Vega fought all over the Sola Morales Stadium and pinned him in his last match.


[edit] Bruiser Brody Murder and Trial

On July 17, 1988, Bruiser Brody had finished a match with Abdullah the Butcher and Dan Spivey in Bayamón (a city near San Juan, Puerto Rico), when Huertas, came up to him in the locker room and asked him to go into the shower to discuss business.

It is rumored that several wrestlers in the scene claimed that Huertas was holding a knife wrapped inside a towel when he was waiting for Brody to arrive in the locker room. Since Huertas was at that time one of the men who made decisions at the WWC meetings and was also a good friend of Carlos Colón (WWC Promoter and main superstar), it has been speculated that this is why none of the wrestlers did anything to prevent Brody from "talking" to Huertas.

Huertas got into the shower area first and, when Brody bent his head to enter the shower area, Huertas allegedly grabbed his hair and stabbed Brody several times in the stomach and the chest. Brody was taken by ambulance to Centro Medico, the main hospital facility in San Juan, but he died hours later while undergoing a second surgery.

Huertas, who always maintained his innocence, was tried for murder, but was acquitted by a jury of his peers. Afterwards, a number of wrestlers refused to work in Puerto Rico in protest of the jury verdict, which temporarily crippled the Puerto Rican wrestling scene.


[edit] Titles held

[edit] World Wrestling Council


[edit] Finisher

  • Heart Punch

[edit] Trivia

  • Did you know that Jose Gonzalez wrestled Bruiser Brody not only in Puerto Rico but in the WWWF(WWE today)in the mid-1970s.
  • Between 1973 and 2002 Invader #1 has won nearly every WWC title 46 times.
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