In the latest exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall spoke with former WWE Tag Team Champion ‘The Mountie’ Jacques Rougeau. He talked about his career, the Montreal Screwjob, why he hasn’t watched WWE for 30 years and a lot of other topics. Scroll down to watch the interview.
The Mountie talking about why he left the WWF in 1994:
“What I’ve lived on and thrived on was getting better or getting a better position or getting a better push and that’s the only thing that would keep you going. I think when my mind quit on me was at WrestleMania X when we were wrestling Men on a Mission and me and Pierre were tag team champions for the third time during that year. What happened was five months before we went to WrestleMania, we kept getting beat by every team that was in the WWE/WWF. Every team. We go into Montreal, my hometown, and we do a job for the guys that were there. We would go to Toronto and we would get beat everywhere. Vince kept telling us, ‘Don’t worry guys because at WrestleMania X, you’re going against Men on a Mission and you’re going to get a big win there and you’ll get all your merchant value back.’ Like, if you win at WrestleMania X and you beat Men on a Mission, you get all your credibility back. What we did is for five months, we made everybody look good and then for helping them out, WrestleMania X is our moment.”
“One hour or two hours before the show, Pat Patterson came to see me backstage, he came up to me and said, ‘Jacques, can I have a word with you and Carl?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ He said, ‘Vince was thinking if we beat Men on a Mission tonight, what are we going to do with them after?’ I was thinking to myself, ‘I don’t give a sh*t. For the last five months, we did what we had to do. This is our time tonight, WrestleMania X.’ I said, ‘Can I have a meeting with Vince please?’ I go in the room with Vince and told him to take his booking book out and there’s the towns he booked for the next towns and shows. I went through every town he had. Two months later, his book became vacant after Tel Aviv and Israel. That was the last two shows we were booked in his book. I told him the next day, ‘I’m finishing there.’”
Thoughts on the Montreal Screwjob:
“After everything that was given to Bret, all the opportunities, the titles, the exposure, Bret had to give the belt back in an honorable way. That was the only decision to do, and I think Vince did the absolute right thing to do. He worked it with Hebner. He worked it with Earl Hebner. He worked it with Shawn Michaels and said, ‘Hey, Bret doesn’t want to do business. We have to do it in a different way’, and I agree a hundred miles an hour with what happened because you have to give back the belt honorably after holding it and everything Vince did with him and gave him.”
On why he hasn’t watched WWE in 30 years:
“Thirty-some years ago, I had a falling out with Vince McMahon, you know, a very big disagreement and I turned my back on everything in WWE. In the last 30 years, I have not watched one wrestling show in 30 years, so I don’t know the talent. I know John Cena because I’ve seen him in a movie. I know Kevin Owens because I taught him how to wrestle from age 14-18. He was a student at my school, but I don’t know the talent. I just have a personal feeling when I see WWF or Vince. I just want to get away from that. I have my own wrestling company for 20 years. I kept on wrestling. I kept doing my passion.”
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