Carl Ouellet

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Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet CanadaCanada
PCO 2018

PCO 2018
Data
Surname Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet
Ring name Pierre Carl Ouellet
Carl Ouellet
Pierre
Pierre Ouellet
Jean-Pierre LaFitte
Kris Kannonball
Killer Karl Wallace
Wal Wallace
The Masked X
Bash the Terminator
PCO
Additions to names PCO
height 185 cm
Fighting weight 136 kg
birth December 30, 1967
Montreal , Quebec , Canada
Announced from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New Orleans , Louisiana
Trained by Édouard Carpentier
Pat Girard
Dan Kroffat
Steve Strong
debut 1987
retirement 2011

Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet (born December 30, 1967 in Montreal , Québec ), better known under his ring names Carl Ouellet and Pierre Ouellet , Pierre Carl Ouellet ( PCO ) and Jean Pierre LaFitte is a Canadian wrestler .

At the beginning of his career he was mainly used as a midcarder and tag team wrestler. One of his greatest successes from this time is receiving the WWF World Tag Team Championship three times with Jacques Rougeau as tag team The Quebecers . After retiring in 2011, he made a surprise return to the ring and is now under contract with the Ring of Honor , where he became the oldest ROH World Champion at the age of 51 .

Life

youth

At the age of 12, he lost vision in his right eye after a friend accidentally shot him with an air rifle . He therefore began to wear an eye patch that would later become one of his trademarks in his wrestling career . In his youth he tried different sports such as baseball , football and hockey and over time also regained his spatial vision or was able to compensate for his handicap over the years.

As a teenager he got to know the wrestling promotion Lutte Internationale and saw stars like Rick Martel , the Rogeau Brotherss, King Tonga , Dino Bravo and Pat Patterson wrestle. However, it was only with the beginning of the Hulkamania in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) that his interest in wrestling as a profession began. This was followed by appearances at various independent promotions in Quebec and in Eastern Canada. He had problems early on because, as a French-Canadian , he spoke poor English, most bookers and wrestlers couldn't speak French and the various spots were announced in English.

Carl Ouellet slowly started wrestling all over the world. He performed for promotions in Puerto Rico, England, South Africa and, from 1992, also regularly at the German-Austrian League Catch Wrestling Association (CWA). He was to be involved there again from 1997 onwards. He also worked regularly for the World Wrestling Council (WWC). There he had main events with Carlos Colón , Abdullah the Butcher and Jose Gonzalez, among others .

World Wrestling Federation / World Championship Wrestling

Carl Ouellet with an eye patch (1995)

In 1993 Ouellet joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Jacques Rougeau , whose career stagnated as The Mountie after the resignation of his brother Ray Rougeau , discovered Ouellet in Puerto Rico and recommended him for the WWF. Together with Rougeau, Ouellet formed the Quebecers tag team from July 1993 . There he had the name Quebecer Pierre . The manager was Johnny Polo , later known as Raven. In 1993 and 1994 , the Quebecers won the WWF World Tag Team Championship three times . After Rougeau left his doctorate in 1994, Oulette got a new gimmick and competed as a pirate under the name Jean Pierre LaFitte. In 1995, he had a three-month and generally well received feud against Bret Hart . Two matches from that time stood out. On the one hand the retirement match against Jacques Rogeau in the Montreal Forum on October 21, 1994, on the other hand a main event match against Bret Hart in the sold out Madison Square Garden.

His plans as a single wrestler envisaged that he should fight for the WWF Championship and his standing in Canada initially convinced Vince McMahon . However, it was not to be: After being at a house show in Montreal is the reigning champion diesel should be beaten (Kevin Nash), he feared a loss of image and an end to his career. In fact, he'd run into The Kliq (a backstage group led by Shawn Michaels and Nash) before , who had a lot of backstage power. Although the finish was changed to a double countout, the Kliq then put pressure on Vince McMahon. Another match between the two nearly ended in a brawl backstage. Ouellet's gimmick soon became a jobber and shortly afterwards he asked for his dismissal.

In 1996 Ouellet moved to WCW . There he formed the Tag Team The Amazing French Canadians with Jacques Rougeau , which mainly competed against Public Enemy ( Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge ) and the Steiner Brothers ( Rick and Scott Steiner ).

In 1998 they both returned to the WWF for two years and reunited as The Quebecers . After his contract expired in January 2000, he was briefly active in Extreme Championship Wrestling , but moved back to the WCW after a title match against Justin Credible . There he became part of the "Team Canada" around Bret Hart . On August 14, 2000 he was allowed to hold the WCW Hardcore Championship for a short time , but lost it to Norman Smiley on the same evening . Since his visa expired that year and was not renewed, he had to return to Canada.

After the WCW

From November to December 2003, he joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a masked wrestler under the ring name (TNA) The Masked X on. From 2004 he made occasional appearances in independent leagues, including in England and at the newly formed National Wrestling Alliance . He was also the presenter for the French edition of TNA Impact . In 2007 and 2008 he received a dark match in a SmackDown taping. In the first one he lost to ECW star Tommy Dreamer , in the second to Charlie Haas .

On February 8, 2011, he announced his exit from the wrestling business. His last match for the time being was against Desmond Wolfe in Montreal .

Return to wrestling

Since 2016 he has been fighting in independent leagues again. In 2018 he met the Austrian wrestler Walter at Joey Janela 's Spring Break 2 . The match, which took place on Wrestlemania weekend, was highly acclaimed. Together with the fitness trainer Destro, he began to create a new gimmick, a kind of Frankenstein monster , which he presented in a series of YouTube spots. Those bizarre clips in which he was set on fire, electrocuted, and other forms of torture went viral.

Finally, he was taken under an exclusive contract by Ring of Honor in 2018. There he first formed a tag team with Brody King and Marty Scurll called Villain Enterprises. Together with Brody King he won the ROH World Tag Team Championship and a day later the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with Marty Scurll as an additional man. On April 16, 2018, he made his biggest appearance to date after his return when he lost the tag team title to the Guerrillas of Destiny in a sold out Madison Square Garden at the G1 Supercard, hosted by ROH together with New Japan Pro-Wrestling .

In 2019 he competed with King in the Crockett Cup. The two were not only allowed to win the trophy, but also the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship . At the PPV Final Battle event on December 13, 2019, he became the oldest ROH World Champion in the history of Ring of Honor at the age of 51 .

Wrestling title

  • CPW International
    • CPW Tag Team Championship (1 ×) with "Wild" Dangerous Dan
  • Game changer wrestling
    • GCW Extreme Championship (1 ×)
  • Great North Wrestling
    • GNW Canadian Championship (1 ×)
  • International Wrestling Syndicate
    • IWS Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
  • Jonquiere Championship Wrestling
    • JCW Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • 71st place of the 500 best single wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 (2019)
    • 393rd place of the 500 best single wrestlers in the PWI Years (2003)
    • 83rd place of the 100 best Tag Teams 1 together with Jacques Rougeau (2003)
  • Top of the World Wrestling
    • TOW Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Al Snow
  • Xtreme Zone Wrestling
    • XZW Ironman Championship (1 ×)

Web links

Commons : Carl Ouellet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b c d e Jan Murphy: PCO enjoying rare wrestling renaissance. In: Slam! Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Pat Laprade, Bertrand Hebert: Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs: The Untold Story of How Montreal Shaped the World of Wrestling . ECW Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-77090-296-1 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  4. ↑ WWE News, RAW Results, Smackdown Results. In: Wrestling News and Results, WWE News, TNA News, ROH News. Retrieved March 7, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b c Martin Hoffmann: WWE-Ex-Star PCO (Quebecer Pierre): Crazy restart with 50. In: Sport1.de. December 16, 2018, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Harris M. Lentz III: Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed. McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4766-0505-0 , pp. 199 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Tim Baines: Ouellet's star shining again? In: Slam! Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Jason Clevett: Ouellet wants another run with WWE. In: Slam! Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Chris Walker: Behind the rebirth of Ring of Honor's 51-year-old madman known as PCO. In: sportingnews.com. January 31, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ James Dixon, Jim Cornette, Benjamin Richardson: Titan Sinking: The decline of the WWF in 1995 . Lulu.com, 2014, ISBN 978-1-291-99637-1 , pp. 189 f . ( google.de [accessed on March 7, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Pierre-Carl Ouellet On Heat With The Kliq And Refusing To Lose To Kevin Nash And Shawn Michaels. In: wrestlinginc.com. July 2, 2016, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Pierre Carl Ouellet. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b Patric Laprade: Pierre-Carl Ouellet retires. Slam! Wrestling, February 9, 2011, accessed May 20, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Wrestler Database »PCO» Matches ( English ) CAGEMATCH. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  15. ^ A b Ian Williams: Pierre Carl Ouellet Is Old as Hell and Still Banging on the Indie Circuit. In: Vice. May 22, 2018, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Oliver Lee Bateman: The Wrestler Who Has Gone Full Frankenstein to Bring His Career Back from the Dead. In: melmagazine.com. October 31, 2018, accessed March 7, 2020 (American English).
  17. ↑ Title change at ROH TV tapings in Las Vegas. In: f4wonline.com. March 17, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  18. ↑ ROH / NJPW G1 Supercard live results: Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada. In: f4wonline.com. April 6, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Final Battle Recap: PCO Wins ROH World Title, Two Other Titles Change Hands. In: ROHWrestling.com. December 14, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Ismael AbduSalaam: PCO Plans for Historic ROH World Title Run Using the 'George Foreman Blueprint'. In: Beats, Boxing and Mayhem. January 10, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  21. ↑ [ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/europe/germany/cwa/eu-cwa-t.html Catch Wrestling Association World Tag Team Title] . wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  22. ^ GNW Canadian Championship . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  23. ^ Pro Wrestling Illustrated Top 500 - 1995 . Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  24. ^ PWI 500 of the PWI Years . Willy Wrestlefest. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  25. ^ ROH World Title # 1 Contendership Tournament «Tournament database« CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Holy S *** Moment: Destro shocks PCO with car battery, PCO wins ROH World Title. In: rohwrestling.com. January 15, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  27. ^ Faction Of The Year: Villain Enterprises. In: rohwrestling.com. January 15, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  28. ^ Pierre Carl Ouellet Profiles . In: Slam! Sports . Canadian Online Explorer . Retrieved August 6, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Ouellet, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec