MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2008
reported by Russell Plummer
OUELLET BACK AS STEELE DEPARTS -AND DUPREE WILL SOON BE HERE TOO!
‘American Disaster’ Broady Steele flew home at the weekend after completing his latest British tour but, almost immediately, his place in All Star Wrestling’s transatlantic ‘Riot Squad’ has been taken by Carl-Pierre Ouellet. And the returning Canadian globetrotter will very soon be joined by his ever-outspoken Quebecers tag partner Rene Dupree. The pair made quite an impact in our rings earlier this year forming a combination mixing the experience and ring know-how of the much travelled Ouellet with the flair and swagger of 24 year-old Dupree.
Ouellet, who first made his name campaigning in Canada and the United States as Jean-Pierre Lafitte, has wrestled in 15 different countries around the world and fans still talk of his long running feud with ‘Hit Man’ Bret Hart that reached its climax in Montreal. Ouellet, now one of the few current campaigners who can claim to have appeared at two of the greatest venues on either side of the Atlantic - New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Royal Albert Hall in London - also hit the high spots with WCW when taking Kevin Nash to a double title count-out.
Since leaving the UK earlier in the year, Dupree has been featured throughout Canada on a tour paying tribute to his international wrestling achievements. The New Brunswick-born heavyweight was a WWE title holder while still in his teens and his father Emile Dupree, himself a wrestler for 33 years from 1956 to 1989, was promoter of an extended circuit also having British interest through the involvement of gritty South Coast ladies contender Erin Angel.
Dupree also main-evented in Japan (for All Japan and Hustle) and Mexico during his sojourn from British rings.
