Rene & Karl Just after settling in at the start of his second British tour of the year, colourful French-Canadian heavyweight Rene Dupree has been called home to Canada where his father, former wrestler, Emil Dupree is seriously ill. The 24 year-old, a WWE title holder before he was out of his teens, hopes to be back to resume his All Star programme at Cannock on Tuesday 7 October.
Dupree senior‘s ring career spanned 33 years from 1956 to 1989 and earlier this year he promoted an extended Canadian tour paying tribute to Rene’s ring achievements. Before flying back to New Brunswick, Rene had time to revive his tag partnership with the much travelled Karl Ouellet, another star who made his name in WWE, and has now seen action in 15 different countries around the world. Ouellet is due to stay until early October and hopes there will be time for at least a couple of tag team tests when Dupree returns next month.
During the next two weeks Ouellet and the rest of All Star’s World Riot Squad will be joined by the Florida tearaway ‘Miami Bruiser’ Brandon Lee, a 6ft 4in giant who will be pulling out all the stops to make a big impact during his first taste of European action.
