Jacques Rougeau Files For Bankruptcy

Former WWE star Jacques Rougeau has filed for bankruptcy, the former WWE Intercontinental Champion revealed during an appearance on Wrestling Life with Ben Veal.

Rougeau noted that he began to suffer money troubles during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was forced to close his pro wrestling school and cancel his one-man shows. Rougeau's financial situation then worsened after his partner of 13 years, Natalie, was diagnosed with cancer, and Rougeau stopped working to take care of her.

"Anybody who's lived through cancer, you know, you hear about it and you read about it, but until you live it, you don't know what the hell you're going through. The cancer is bad, but the chemotherapy is worse…she was doing treatments for 16 months...three days a week at the hospital. And those other three days, two days that you could go to work, you don't want to leave her...so I put my work aside, and I just took care of my lady. And so I fell back in the hole again," Rougeau said.

The former WWE talent launched Wrestling Academy in 2022, a pro wrestling competition for independent talents in Canada. Wrestling Academy stopped in 2024, however, after losing money for three years in a row, which Rougeau attributed to sponsors going out of business.

"I didn't want to lose face, so I borrowed the money and I paid the wrestlers. So now I was down like $70,000. So just about last week, my company that I had for 40-some years, I went bankrupt," Rougeau added.

Rougeau only filed for bankruptcy on his company and did not include any personal debts or business partners in the filing. With his partner now in remission, Rougeau plans to get back on his feet by restarting his one-man shows.

Jacques Rougeau wrestled for WWE across multiple runs between 1986 and 1998, during which he was one-half of the Fabulous Rougeaus with brother Raymond. Jacques then became The Mountie in 1991 and had one reign as WWE Intercontinental Champion under the gimmick until a WWE departure in 1992. After returning to the company in the summer of 1993, Rougeau formed The Quebecers with Pierre Ouellet (PCO) and they had three reigns as WWE Tag Team Champions until splitting in the summer of 1994.

Rougeau then headed to WCW, coming out of retirement in 1996 to reunite with Ouellet as The Amazing French Canadians. Rougeau became one of the few people to ever defeat Hulk Hogan clean at a WCW house show in Montreal in 1997. Rougeau and PCO then became The Quebecers again in WWE in January 1998, with Rougeau departing the company in August of that year.

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