Jack Meléndez

Hector Meléndez, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico better known by his stage name "Moody" Jack Meléndez, is a Puerto Rican professional wrestling sportscaster. He is known in the United States as the Spanish play-by-play announcer for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the personal ring announcer for The Latin American Xchange, a stable in TNA. He has also worded for wrestling promotions in Puerto Rico. Melendez is bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English.

Early in his childhood Meléndez enjoyed wrestling, and his mother used to take him to the World Wrestling Council shows every Saturday. During this time, he became interested in Capitol Sports Promotions until Bruiser Brody was allegedlly killed by José Huertas Gonzalez at an event. After this event Meléndez became interested in the programming of the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He continued watching Capitol's programming but his interest in local wrestling was not revived until the debut of the International Wrestling Association (IWA).

While working for a magazine publisher in Puerto Rico's metropolitan area, Meléndez pursued a job with the IWA. He was selling them advertisements and writing articles about the promotion. While doing this, he met Savio Vega and was hired by the company as a creative consultant. He subsequently received a position with the creative team along with Dutch Mantel. Mantel took him under his wing and taught him about telling a story inside or outside the ring. Mantel would give him the content of every story and Moody would organize it while having his input. He learned the politics of the business from Victor the Bodyguard who became his godfather in wrestling so to speak and later on from Ray Gonzalez with whom he became very good friends and people say they great chemistry between them. One of the first lessons he got was that nobody is expendable in the business so he realized the closest he could get to not being expendable was by doing a little bit of everything. While writing storylines, he tried to contribute to other parts within the company. He started doing camera work shooting his own ideas and Mantel's as well. He took upon himself to learn how to edit watching Orville Collazo work, the only IWA editor at that point. His first work with a storyline involved producing an angle that was written by Mantel and Moody who also edit it. It was the Starr Corporation taking over IWA angle with the video being a career recap also narrated by Moody. After this he started working with the editing of music videos for every single storyline in IWA. Under him everybody and every single wrestler in the company had a storyline, even the first match. Not only did Moody had a storyline for everybody, he also made them part of the creating process by allowing them to be themselves and have input in everything. This made Moody the best star makers in Puerto Rico since Carlos Colón in the '80s. He has been responsible for some of the biggest angles and stars in Puerto Rico's recent history. It comes to mind Los Hermanos en Dolor vs Starr Corporation,deemed as one of the best angles ever when Savio Vega turned on the fans and joined Starr Corporation resulting in the union of a baby face ( Shane the Glamour Boy ) and a heel ( Ricky Banderas ) coming together to stop the Corporation and Savio's dictatorship. Also important was the angle of Apolo being the people's champ as a loner with no alliances. Later on, after an exodus of stars, Moody created La Revolución Dominicana as the top heels of the company. It was foreigners vs Puerto Ricans. Around this time he also created Los Rabiosos, two regular guys ( Mr. Big and Blitz ) raised in the street that loved to have a good time always drinking beer and being funny, they were rock stars, Melendez just let them to be themselves, they were heels but the people loved their act and were very popular. At the same time, Melendez had a babyface team called Zona llegal ( El Chicano and Jumping Jeff Jeffries ) who were also raised in the streets but were more like rappers. During a Christmas company party Los Rabiosos got drunk and ended up at the babyfaces party where they collided with Zona llegal but by the time the party was over Los Rabiosos and Zona llegal agreed to join forces and face the Dominicans, naming themselves La Calle ( the street ), it was to this date one of the best skids ever done in Puerto Rico, and so it started, La Revolución Dominicana vs La Calle de Puerto Rico, converting La Calle in stars and the angle becoming an instant classic. When Brian Wickens, also known as Bushwhacker Luke Williams, entered the company he became his last mentor instructing Meléndez in aspects of the creative organization and the two became very good friends. Moody was also the TV announcer for IWA. He style is said to be unique and full of passion making the product the people were watching very believable and exiting leaving the people wanting more. This is stated as one of the reasons IWA was drawing so good during Moody's first stint in IWA.

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