Billed height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Name Jose Gonzalez Retired 2006, 2014 | Debut 1966 Billed weight 255 lb (116 kg) Role Wrestler | |
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Ring name(s) Invader #1El Jibarito de San Lorenzo | ||
José Huertas González, better known as Invader 1, is a Puerto Rican retired professional wrestler who wrestled in the United States and around the world, especially in Puerto Rico. He is the current corporate director of the World Wrestling League.
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Wrestling career
Since 1973, he was a wrestler and booker for the World Wrestling Council and wrestled for the International Wrestling Association. He held the Puerto Rico heavyweight title twelve times between 1977 and 2001, and the WWC Television Title five times between 1986 and 1991. He retired in 2006 to enter politics.
Gonzalez began wrestling as The Prophet in Chicago. In 1972 he joined the WWF. When he returned to Puerto Rico to fight with Capitol Sport Promotion, he took on the masked persona of The Invader so his mother would not know he was a wrestler. He fought on The Invaders tag team with Roberto Soto as Invader 2 and then Johnny Rivera as Invader 3. The Invaders worked as a mid-card tag team in the WWF in the early 1980s.
In 2012, González became the corporative director of the World Wrestling League. In 2015, he was inducted into the Salón de los Inmortales.
Killing Bruiser Brody
In July 1988, González fatally stabbed professional wrestler Frank Donald Goodish, known as Bruiser Brody, during a wrestling event in Puerto Rico. Gonzalez was acquitted in 1989 after a jury accepted that he was acting in self-defense. Another wrestler, Tony Atlas, says he witnessed the stabbing in the locker room showers, but the knife used in the stabbing was not recovered. Americans Tony Atlas and Dutch Mantel were called to testify, however the subpoenas were mailed a day after the trial ended. The investigation was criticised in two books about Brody, Bruiser Brody (Crowbar Press) and Brody (ECW Press).
Home fire
On Monday, August 11, 2014, a fire occurred at Gonzalez's home, destroying a car and a motorcycle as well as part of his home.