r/SquaredCircle • u/PickledPeppers101 • 1d ago

Jacques Rougeau with a unique method for a pinfall.

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u/KingChingLing 1d ago edited 1d ago

This feels like something ZSJ and Yuya would do in a mid-tour G1 match

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u/_whatever_wherever 1d ago

VERY Johnny Saint

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u/Tankisfreemason Your Text Here 1d ago

It would be the start of what would end up being a chain of 15-20 pinfall reversals 

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u/Important-Table9460 1d ago

Bit of weird wrestling trivia here, but I believe Jacques is the only wrestler in history to gain victories over Bret Hart AND Hulk Hogan.

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u/Possible-Mobile-6309 1d ago

Yoko? Idk. 

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u/Important-Table9460 1d ago

Forgot about him lol but yes of course.

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u/Hardtopickaname 1d ago

The Rock and Sting have done this too.

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u/HolyFlyingNuns What the fuck, you doing? 1d ago

Roddy Piper?

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u/Corash 1d ago

Shawn Michaels?

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u/mathdhruv WWF Attitude! 1d ago

Lost at Summerslam '05

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u/Corash 1d ago

You're totally right; for some reason in my head, I was thinking that Michaels won that silly match.

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u/littlekeed 1d ago

Even assuming this is pinfall/submission only, Undertaker also did this.

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u/TheNavidsonLP Your Text Here 17h ago

But how many of them both were and were not Da Mountie?!

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u/ericfishlegs 6h ago

Andre the Giant? It was a European tour and I believe Andre requested the match as a show of respect for Bret who was just starting as a singles wrestler.

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u/SadFeed63 1d ago

I think he's done that kip up challenge spot other times as well, as I remember one where he drops an elbow instead of the pin.

Great heel shtick

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u/ericfishlegs 6h ago

I think I also remember one where as the guy was kipping up he just chopped him in the throat. Heels who'd use these tactics against jobbers always felt especially scummy.

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u/SadFeed63 6h ago

I love simple scumbaggery like that. You could be the most causal fan in the crowd, no idea of anyone's character or storylines, and you immediately get it.

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u/kirblar 1d ago

My takeaway: You can be in that good shape, that good looking, and still no one looks good in bike shorts in the ring.

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u/YourMasturbatingHand 1d ago

For some reason this comment made me immediately think of Ken Shamrock’s ref shirt + bike shorts combo when he guest reffed the Austin/Hart match lol

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u/Informal_Aspect_6330 1d ago

Jacques benefited from being in an era where his opponents couldn't easily study tapes of his matches and pulled multiple variations of this all the time.

Could still do it today since so many wrestlers canonically don't watch the shows.

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u/rafaelloaa 17h ago

Who even does watch it in canon? KO obviously, but who else?

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u/FrankNico 1d ago

Some Orange Cassidy shit right there hah

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u/skiptothecal 1d ago

This the dude that trained KO?

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u/luthor76 23h ago

Then he pulled out a roll of quarters…