Armand Rougeau was a professional wrestler

Professional wrestling

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. He is the son of Jacques Rougeau, Sr.

Jacques Rougeau, Sr.

Jacques Rougeau, Sr. is a former professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestlers Jacques Rougeau, Armand Rougeau and Raymond Rougeau.-Career:Jacques Rougeau, Sr. started wrestling in 1956 with his brother, Johnny Rougeau...

 and brother of former World Wrestling Federation (WWF) wrestlers Jacques Rougeau, Jr.

Jacques Rougeau

Jacques Rougeau Jr. is a retired French-Canadian professional wrestler from Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s with the World Wrestling Federation under his own name, and as The Mountie. Rougeau has held fifteen championships during his career...

 and Raymond Rougeau

Raymond Rougeau

Raymond "Ray" Rougeau is a former Canadian professional wrestler and French language television presenter and commentator.-Career:...

. He competed in Canada before he was hired by the WWF. An injury forced him out of the ring

Wrestling ring

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 for several years. He has wrestled occasional matches and worked as an auto mechanic since retiring from wrestling.

Career

Rougeau started wrestling in his native Canada

Canada

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 in 1982. In 1983, while wrestling in the Montreal

Montreal

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 area, he formed a tag team

Tag team

Tag team professional wrestling is a variation in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may comprise two wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name...

 with Dan Kroffat known as the Flying Canucks. They feuded

Feud (professional wrestling)

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 with The Long Riders (Scott

Scott Irwin

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 and Bill Irwin

Barney Irwin

Barney William Irwin is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin.-Professional wrestling career:Bill Irwin started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance's Central States territory and in World Class Championship Wrestling...

). They also had a rivalry with Richard Charland over Lutte International's Canadian International Tag Team Championship

Canadian International Tag Team Championship

The Canadian International Tag Team Championship was the tag team title in the Montreal-based wrestling promotion Lutte Internationale . The title lasted from 1976 until Lutte Internationale closed in 1987.-Title history:...

. On February 8, 1987, Rougeau and Kroffat defeated Charland and Stephen Petitpas

Stephen Petitpas

Stephen Petitpas , is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Big" Stephen Petitpas.-Career:...

 to win the title belts. They held the championship for over two months, dropping it to Charland and Chuck Simms on April 13. During his time with the company, Rougeau also competed as a singles wrestler, facing such opponents as Bob Orton, Jr.

Bob Orton, Jr.

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He signed a contract to compete for the World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWF) in 1986. One month before his WWF debut, he sustained a serious back injury. To repair the injury, he had two discs removed from his back, which forced him to retire. He operated an auto repair business after leaving wrestling. He did not wrestle for several years, until he agreed to wrestle in a tag team match for his brother Jacques's Lutte 2000 promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

 in December 2001. He has come back for several matches since then but does not intend to return to wrestling on a regular basis.

Championships and accomplishments

• Lutte International
  • Canadian International Tag Team Championship
    Canadian International Tag Team Championship
    The Canadian International Tag Team Championship was the tag team title in the Montreal-based wrestling promotion Lutte Internationale . The title lasted from 1976 until Lutte Internationale closed in 1987.-Title history:...
    
     (1 time) - with Dan Kroffat

External links

• Online World of Wrestling profile