Felix Upton on July 31, 2025
Jacques Rougeau, best known to wrestling fans as The Mountie and one-half of The Quebecers, has filed for bankruptcy after a series of personal and financial setbacks.
The former WWE Intercontinental Champion revealed the news during an appearance on Wrestling Life with Ben Veal, explaining how a mix of pandemic-related closures, personal tragedy, and mounting debt brought him to the breaking point.
Rougeau explained that things began to spiral during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he had to shut down his wrestling school and cancel his one-man shows. But what really derailed everything was his longtime partner Natalie’s battle with cancer. Rougeau made the decision to step away from work completely to care for her full-time.
“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,” Rougeau said. “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.”
Trying to rebound, Rougeau launched Wrestling Academy in 2022, a Canadian talent competition designed to showcase independent wrestlers. But after three straight years of losses, Rougeau said he had no choice but to shut it down.
“I didn’t want to lose face, so I borrowed the money and I paid the wrestlers,” he explained. “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 clarified that only his business went under—his personal finances and partners weren’t part of the filing. With his partner now thankfully in remission, Rougeau said he’s planning to restart his one-man shows to climb out of the financial hole.
Jacques Rougeau spent over a decade across multiple runs in WWE, first alongside his brother Raymond as The Fabulous Rougeaus, later becoming The Mountie—winning the Intercontinental Title in 1991. He formed The Quebecers with Pierre Ouellet (PCO), winning the WWE Tag Team Titles three times. Rougeau also had a WCW run, where he was one of the few men to ever pin Hulk Hogan clean—at a 1997 Montreal house show, no less.
It’s been a tough road for Rougeau, but he’s hopeful for a comeback. “I’ve been down before,” he said. “I’m not done yet.”
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July 31, 2025 11:29 am
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