1. Jacques Rougeau Talks About “The Mountie” Character Being Banned In Canada
Jacques Rougeau recently made an appearance on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast and talked about his Mountie character, his Jailhouse match at SummerSlam 1991, The Mountie character being banned in Canada & more. Below are the highlights:
On The Infamous SummerSlam 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x384evG7CbI
On “The Mountie” Character Being Banned 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 in 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.
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