The Mountie Talks About Being Banned In Canada, Winning The IC Title, Arresting People, More

Former WWE Intercontinental and tag team champion Jacques Rougeau spoke to the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling Podcast recently. You can see highlights below, and the full interview at this link.

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."

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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.