Timothy R. Calkins Jr. (December 27, 1976 – January 7, 2015) was an American professional wrestler , known by his ring name Tim Arson , who worked in the Puerto Rican-based New Wrestling Stars and World Wrestling Council , as well as American independent promotions. In 2006, he appeared as The Zombie on the debut episode of World Wrestling Entertainment 's ECW on Sci Fi television show.
21-529: Trained by former WWF wrestler Johnny Rodz , Calkins made his debut in 2001 wrestling in Northeastern independent promotions including USA Pro Wrestling as a member of the stable Canadian Impact Alliance, winning the USAPW United States and vacant New York Championship in a four-way match with USAPW United States Champion "Hardrock" Ken Sweeney, Low Rida and Stryker on October 20 before losing
42-646: A Handicap match on January 20, 2007. In May 2007, he married his long term valet Yaritza. Later that year, he headlined the IWA Puerto Rico supercard Christmas in Puerto Rico in a match against IWA Heavyweight Champion Blitz in Bayamón, Puerto Rico , on December 15, 2007. He had at one point defeated Blitz for the title, illegally using the ropes to pin Blitz. However, Invader #1 came out and informed
63-570: A handicap match at a show in Carolina, Puerto Rico , on March 4, 2006. On March 19 at a New Wrestling Stars event held at the Municipal Coliseum at Añasco, Puerto Rico , Calkins became involved in a fight between female wrestlers Yaritza and Sandra. He later acted as the special referee during the main event between Huracán Castillo and El Diamante later that night. After Castillo defeated Diamante, he and Diamante attacked Castillo with
84-718: A number of other villains . During the next few weeks, he also defeated Bad Boy, Bronco and Hunter in singles matches and teamed with Black Pain against Abbad and Eddie Colón during April. Shortly after defeating Bronco I at the Bruiser Broady Memorial Weekend in Ponce, Puerto Rico , on April 28, he defeats Rickie Vallens for the NWS Heavyweight Championship two days later on April 30, 2006. Within several weeks, he also teamed with Rico Suave defeating America's Most Wanted for
105-531: A week later. He and Suave continued to lose matches to Hammett and Rick Stanley as well as rematches against Huracan Castillo and Chris Joel later during the year as well as single matches to Castillo and Jose Rivera, Jr.. Feuding with Glamour Boy Shane over the NWS Heavyweight title during early 2007, he defeated "Cowboy" Justin Nice before losing to former tag team partner Rico Suave and Huracan Castillo in
126-789: 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. González began wrestling as The Prophet in Chicago. In 1972 he joined the WWF. When he returned to Puerto Rico to fight with Capitol Sports Promotions, he took on the masked persona of The Invader so his mother would not know he
147-567: The Showdown at Shea , he was defeated by "Polish Power" Ivan Putski . His last WWF match was a loss to Gama Singh on June 19, 1985. For a time, he also worked with Mike and Gene LeBell 's NWA Hollywood Wrestling . He won a greater share of matches wrestling as "Arabian Wildman" Java Ruuk and even won the promotion's battle royal in 1976. In 1996, Rodz was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame class of 1996 by Arnold Skaaland . On
168-609: The "Fire Brand From the Bronx" and the "Unpredictable", he was a proficient worker and a solid heel. Johnny would often tag with Jose Estrada , and Frank "the Gypsy" Rodriguez. For much of the next two decades through mid-1985, Rodz was a mainstay of the federation, though largely used as enhancement talent , for which he was praised by some of his peers. At times Rodz worked in Japan, Puerto Rico and other territories. On August 9, 1980, at
189-666: The March 1, 2007 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's Impact showed the Latin American Xchange (LAX) attacking Rodz as part of their feud with Team 3D . Ten days later at Destination X , he accompanied Team 3D to the ring for their Ghettobrawl match with LAX at the pay-per-view. Johnny Rodz has been training students for over 30 years, out of Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn . Rodz has trained many students who have gone on to have successful careers in and out of
210-667: The WWC Tag Team titles on June 3, 2006. Feuding with Glamour Boy Shane over the NWS Heavyweight title, he eventually defeated Shane in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico , on June 3, 2006. Due to the pre-match stipulations, Shane was forced to leave the promotion. During that same month, Calkins appeared as Tim Arson in a dark match on WWE Raw against Matt Striker on June 12 which eventually aired on WWE Heat . The following night, he appeared on ECW as The Zombie in which he lost to The Sandman after taking several shots to
231-482: The World Championship. His last match was that August. In July 1988, González fatally stabbed professional wrestler Frank Donald Goodish, known as Bruiser Brody , backstage during a wrestling event in Puerto Rico. González was acquitted of murder 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
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#1732798165606252-714: The corporative director of the World Wrestling League . In 2015, he was inducted into the Salón de los Inmortales . In 2019, he wrestled at 73 years old. González made an appearance at IWA on March 12, 2022, in Humacao, Puerto Rico with arch enemy Chicky Starr as a guest referees for a tag team match between Savio Vega & Electro against Manny Ferno & Khris Diaz. April 30, 2022 in Humacao, Puerto Rico on Juicio Final, with Savio Vega & Chicky Starr as guest referees he defeated Manny Ferno to win
273-448: The head from The Sandman's Singapore cane . Returning to the WWC the following month, he and Rico Suave successfully defended the titles against SWAT Team on July 21 before losing the WWC Tag Team titles to Huracan Castillo and Chris Joel at the WWC supercard Aniversario 33 on August 12, 2006. Although recapturing the titles on September 4, they lost to Chris Joel and Fire Blaze less than
294-502: The independent wrestling promotion known as World of Unpredictable Wrestling . Jose Gonzalez (wrestler) José Huertas González (born March 17, 1947 ) 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 was charged with the murder of wrestler Frank Goodish ( Bruiser Brody ), but claimed self defense and
315-617: The referee what had happened and the decision was reversed. In 2014 he wrestled in Atomic Championship Wrestling's "Youth Gone Wild" in Pennsylvania where he went up against Malcolm and was victorious, despite the fact that Malcolm used an illegal object throughout the match. Calkins died at the age of 38 on January 7, 2015, in Haskell, New Jersey. Tim's brother, Greg Calkins, has stated that the cause of death
336-535: The ring for various wrestling promotions, serve as high-level executives at television networks, and some even went on to become high-level government officials at agencies such as FDA and FDIC. Wrestlers trained by Rodz include: Tazz , Tommy Dreamer , D-von Dudley , Damien Demento , Prince Nana , Marti Belle , Wendy Choo , Big Vito , Masha Slamovich , William Morrissey , Vince Russo , and many more. A few of Rodz' students have gone on to train other future superstars at their own wrestling academies. Rodz founded
357-520: The titles to Kid Kruel a week later. In March 2003, he participated in a gauntlet match defeating Poppalicious and Live Wyre before losing to Reefer. He would also appear in Mikey Whipwreck 's New York Wrestling Connection defeating Guillotine LeGrande and Disturbed Damien Dragon in a three-way match at NYWC Rampage in Deer Park, New York , on July 12, 2003. Winning a battle royal to regain
378-483: The vacant USAPW New York State Championship on February 14, 2004, he would defend the title for several months before the title became inactive during the year. He would later lose to Kid Kruel in a three-way match with Billy Reil for the vacant USAPW United States title on February 26, 2005. In early 2006, he began touring Puerto Rico with the World Wrestling Council defeating The D'Jour Twins in
399-434: 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. They left WWF in 1984. He would return to Puerto Rico working for International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico) and World Wrestling Council . In 2011, he returned to the ring, wrestling as Invader 1. In 2012, González became
420-488: Was acquitted in contentious circumstances. These included key witnesses to the incident being unable to testify due to receiving their summons after the trial had concluded, domestic witnesses and event investors corroborating a different account than foreign witnesses, and the murder weapon mysteriously vanishing. Since 1973, he was a wrestler and booker for the World Wrestling Council and wrestled for
441-620: Was cardiac arrest. Johnny Rodz John Rodriguez (born May 16, 1941) is an American retired professional wrestler , better known by the ring name Johnny Rodz . He was part of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) from its early years, appearing on WWWF cards as far back as 1965. He wrestled Bob Backlund in Madison Square Garden while working for the WWWF at the time. Dubbed
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