JACQUES ROUGEAU ON THE MOUNTIE CHARACTER, SUMMERSLAM 91 MATCH
- 12/22/2015 (11:49:19 am)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Today
John and Chad welcome a guest who is known for always getting his man. He is The
Mountie, he is Jacques Rougeau. The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling takes a trip
North of the border as Jacques joins the show to talk about his recent
experiences promoting a successful family based wrestling promotion as well as
talk about his family lineage and how the Rougeau legacy extends so much deeper
than just being Fabulous.
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Jacques Rougeau On His Backstage Confrontation w/ Ludvig Borga:
His time as The Mountie:
To be honest with you I had the greatest moments as The Mountie in my
career. I was working guys like Macho Man, I remember a match with him in
England against him with Elizabeth, I had matches with Undertaker, matches with
Sid Vicious of course matches with Big Boss Man just so many fantastic memories.
There is nothing I didn't do as The Mountie. I remember simple matches with Tito
Santana as The Mountie or Koko B. Ware. I had so much fun with that character
and I honestly made people believe that I thought I was The Mountie. That I was
so convinced that they started believing. It is amazing because when you build a
character and I always tell this at my school that how are you going to get
people to believe in your character if you don't believe it. I had a
brother-in-law who was a real Royal Canadian Mounted Police who gave me some
tricks and some moves that they used when they arrest a guy so all those moves
that I used in the ring were actually legit.
The infamous Summer Slam 1991 Jailhouse match vs. The Big Boss
Man:
It is one of the greatest matches that I've ever had in my career. Ray
Traylor who was the Big Boss Man who unfortunately left us was the kindest
person. I had never seen Big Boss Man talk bad to anyone in the dressing room or
show lack of respect. He was another Owen Hart. So working with a guy like that
for a year to a year and a half around the world was a night off every night and
it was such a pleasure because he would take care of my body, take care of me
and I would take care of him. It was a great time in my career.
Not being able to use The Mountie name in Canada:
I was doing such a great job of making The Mounties look bad in Canada
that they suspended me on TV and I wasn't allowed to be used on TV anymore. So
the only way I was allowed to wrestle was if I took off the sleeves, the shirt
and kept the black pants and they would announce me as Jacques Rougeau. Everyone
knew me as Jacques Rougeau anyway so that was fun. I think they (The Mounties)
took it all a little too serious. Like in movies and everywhere else there is
always dirty Cops or bad Cops but they don't ban the movie because the Cop is
crooked. But I think that my character was becoming so strong that eventually
they decided and voted on it and sent a letter to Vince saying that I wasn't
allowed to wrestle on TV in Canada anymore. Eventually and after that they let
that character go because it wasn't helping me at all so I took a year off and
came back a year and a half later with Carl Ouellet as
The Quebecers ith
the same suit and our music was "We're not the Mounties". So I think Vince
wanted to get back at them in a way.
The impact The Mounite had on Jacques and how today it is fondly
remembered:
The Mountie was great. I'll never forget winning the Intercontinental
Title against Bret Hart and losing it to Rowdy Roddy Piper. I had three
different dolls made and sold in Toys R Us's around the world as The Mountie and
when I give conferences in schools now against intimidation. The first thing I
do is because they don't know me because they are too young and they have only
heard of me but I do so many personal appearances and am on TV that when I come
in and start talking to kids and I take my belt out and my dolls out they start
to say "hey this guy was important". All of that was done because of the Mountie
character.
Jacques also covers in detail his backstage feud with Dynamite Kid, How
him and his Brother Raymond came to the WWF, Memories of The Harts, His Son and
the Future of his family in the wrestling business.
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