Jacques Rougeau Has More Pinfall Victories Over Hulk Hogan Than Randy Savage

[TrueEpic08]

The Macho Man had 102 cracks at gaining a clean pinfall victory over Hulk Hogan between 1985 and 1999 (give or take). He was unable to pin Hogan, make him submit, or knock him out in ANY of them.

Yet Jacques fukking Rougeau, of all people, was able to do this in 1997:



By the way, that's a 16 year streak of not doing jobs at house shows/untelevised shows that was broken by Rougeau there (though not his first clean loss since 1990. Roddy Piper beat him clean at Starrcade 1996 a few months before this). All to pop a house for a return match I'm not even sure ever happened.

Any other examples of weird wrestling history centered around winning streaks you know of? Post them here.

 

[Alexander The Great]

the only that's real are the miles and the money brother.

also, out of those "102" cracks was Macho the babyface?

 

[TrueEpic08]

the only that's real are the miles and the money brother.

also, out of those "102" cracks was Macho the babyface?

Good question. If you count him being in the midst of a face turn in 1987, and the tweener Wolfpac run in 1998, then like 18 or so. Still didn't get the duke in any of them. Even Piper got a couple in WCW, for fukk's sake.

And I'm sure Savage's bank account wasn't hurting from all those losses. I just think it's absurd that The Mountie had better luck against Hogan than he did.

 

[Alexander The Great]

Good question. If you count him being in the midst of a face turn in 1987, and the tweener Wolfpac run in 1998, then like 18 or so. Still didn't get the duke in any of them. Even Piper got a couple in WCW, for fukk's sake.

And I'm sure Savage's bank account wasn't hurting from all those losses. I just think it's absurd that The Mountie had better luck against Hogan than he did.

hogan and savage never wrestled with savage as the babyface in the wwf, only wcw. it was a house show in Canada

 

[FakeNews]

I remember reading that the Mountie beat Hogan in some wrestling magazine. I couldn't believe it. I did not think it was real

 

[Tj Bronson]

I remember reading that the Mountie beat Hogan in some wrestling magazine. I couldn't believe it. I did not think it was real

I probably read that same magazine, cause I know this isn't the first time I've heard about this.

 

[Hoss]

Yeah I remember reading about this when it happened, it made headlines in actual newspapers in Canada.

Rougeau owned a promotion there if I'm not mistaken. I don't think they did a lot of shows in big arenas at that point but Rougeau had big dreams. I guess Hogan was trying to help give that promotion a shot in the arm, maybe? Hogan has a history of getting jobs for his washed friends, but this was clearly a step above that.

Small package finish with the immediate pop-up though, of course.

 

[mr x]

The roll up

 

[jackswstd]

Apparently Hoegan had a lot of respect for him and always let him get a W in Canada.

 

[patscorpio]

Apparently Hoegan had a lot of respect for him and always let him get a W in Canada.

what i understand WCW didnt like that and fired rougeau for it

 

[jackswstd]

what i understand WCW didnt like that and fired rougeau for it

I think I remember him saying that in a shoot interview.

 

[stro]

Lol at the smark recording it calling for the small package in the most bored voice possible

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Good question. If you count him being in the midst of a face turn in 1987, and the tweener Wolfpac run in 1998, then like 18 or so. Still didn't get the duke in any of them. Even Piper got a couple in WCW, for fukk's sake.

And I'm sure Savage's bank account wasn't hurting from all those losses. I just think it's absurd that The Mountie had better luck against Hogan than he did.

The Mountie

havent heard that ring name in a minute. Goddamn.

 

[TrueEpic08]

Yeah I remember reading about this when it happened, it made headlines in actual newspapers in Canada.

Rougeau owned a promotion there if I'm not mistaken. I don't think they did a lot of shows in big arenas at that point but Rougeau had big dreams. I guess Hogan was trying to help give that promotion a shot in the arm, maybe? Hogan has a history of getting jobs for his washed friends, but this was clearly a step above that.

Small package finish with the immediate pop-up though, of course.

He was signed to WCW at the time, but I believe he promoted the show independently. Reading the Observers leading up to this was genuinely kind of comical, as you'd hear about Rougeau trying to put together a Molson Centre show for about a year and just go at the thought of such a thing. Then he actually does it and pins Hulk Hogan clean at that.

There are rumors peddled by many (including Kevin Owens, who was trained by Rougeau) that he actually paid Hogan $10,000 on top of whatever he was getting to do the show to do the honors, but I've always been a little skeptical of that story. If Andre had to be paid $250,000 to lose to Hogan at WrestleMania III, I would surmise that Hogan would need more than $10,000 to do a clean job.

Then again, maybe he just liked Jacques and his family and did him a solid.

 

[Hoss]

Then again, maybe he just liked Jacques and his family and did him a solid.

For what it's worth, there's a theory that Hogan liked and respected Rougeau ever since the day Rougeau "stood up to" (a.k.a.
suckerpunched ) Dynamite Kid.