The Fabulous Rougeaus | |
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The Rougeau Brothers executing La Bombe de Rougeau
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Tag team | |
Members |
Jacques Rougeau Raymond Rougeau |
Name(s) | The Rougeau Brothers The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers The Fabulous Rougeaus |
Heights | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) - Jacques 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) - Raymond |
Combined weight |
213 kg (470 lb; 33.5 st) |
Hometown | Montreal, Quebec |
Billed from | Montreal, Quebec, but soon to relocate to the United States (Memphis, Tennessee) |
Debut | Late 1970s |
Disbanded | 1990 |
Promotions | WWF |
Trainer | Jacques Rougeau, Sr. |
The Fabulous Rougeaus (also known as The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers) was the professional wrestling tag team of real-life brothers Jacques and Raymond Rougeau, best known from their time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1986 to 1990.
Jacques and Raymond began tag-teaming in the late 1970s in their family's Montreal-based wrestling promotion. They later became major stars in Lutte Internationale. Their most notable feud in Montreal was against the Garvin brothers, Ron Garvin and Jimmy Garvin (who were not actually brothers); the climax of their feud was a match in front of close to 20,000 fans at the Montreal Forum.
They were signed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) contracts in February 1986, and debuted as clean-cut faces, The Rougeau Brothers. The Rougeaus were often matched against heel teams such as The Dream Team and Demolition. The latter team coined the nickname the "Ragú sisters" for the brothers - this would later be revived after the Rougeaus' eventual heel turn by such face opponents as The Rockers and Demolition who had made their own (face) turn.
The Rougeaus actually won the WWF Tag Team Championship on August 10, 1987 at the Forum, in a House Show, defeating The Hart Foundation.Jimmy Hart, the Hart Foundation's manager, tried to interfere on their behalf with his signature foreign object, a megaphone. The megaphone was intercepted by the Rougeaus, who used it to get the pin and win the titles. They were announced as the new tag team champions, but the decision was later reversed and their title win was never recognized by the WWF.