Yet another from the “I didn’t get it at first, but I love the gimmick now” pile comes Jacques Rougeau as DA MOUNTIE! Yes yes, I wasn’t onboard with this one when it first hit, but these days I do get a perverse amusement out of seeing him in his little uniform and screaming his name repeatedly throughout his matches.
Today he will be taking on young Ross Greenberg, which is a jobber name if I ever heard a jobber name. Seriously, that’s less a pro wrestler than a guy who is handling your taxes. But let’s see how he does here. My money is on “poorly”.
Mountie circles his foe before giving him a knee to the gut and taking control immediately. He puts him in his wacky Mountie lock, then smashes his face not only into the top turnbuckle repeatedly, but to the middle one as well. Oh and if you thought, “Wait, why not do the bottom one too?” don’t you fret…
…because the man who always gets his man has us covered! That’s actually a pretty cool looking move and I strongly advise whoever is reading this from AEW or WWE steal that move immediately.
Our favorite law enforcer from the north tosses Greenberg backwards to the mat, then stops to scream to everyone that he is, in fact, DA MOUNTIE! You know, just in case you may have forgotten that in the last 20 seconds since he told us last.
He punches and kicks young Ross a few more times before whipping him across the ring and catching him with a half clothesline, half choke hold. Again, this is another kinda sorta cool looking move that needs a revival.
After the match, he picks up his foe and asks Greenberg if he knows who it is that has been pummeling him. As this was right after Mountie lost to the Big Bossman at SummerSlam in a match where the loser went to the pokey, Greenberg tells us, “Yep…you’re a jailbird!” Rightfully furious, Mountie beats up this geek some more then zaps him with the cattle prod. Remember kids, if Jacques ever asks you who he is, you yell as loudly and proudly as you possibly can – “YOU’RE THE MOUNTIE!!!!” It’s the right thing to do!