WWE superspear - destination UK

Sunday, March 22, 2009

ROCCO AND DUPREE MEET IN BRISTOL

‘Rollerball’ Mark Rocco with
Canada’s 'French Phenom' Rene Dupree

Bristol has long been regarded as one of Britain’s foremost wrestling cities and local fans showed last Monday that hadn't forgotten one of the most explosive stars of British wrestling, ‘Rollerball’ Mark Rocco, who was welcomed back to the ring at the Hippodrome Theatre, Monday 16 March, 2009.

The occasion also gave Mark a chance to meet Quebec-born Rene Dupree, another star upholding a proud family wrestling tradition.

Both men began their ring careers in the footsteps of famous wrestling fathers, Rocco starting while his dad Jim Hussey was still one of the foremost heavyweights, while French Canadian Rene’s father, Emile Dupree, had a career spanning more than 30 years in North American rings.

Along with a crowd of more than 800, the ‘Rollerball,’ these days a businessman in Tenerife, Canary Islands enjoyed seeing heavyweights James Mason (vs Dupree), Doug Williams and Gladiator Goliath in action, together with ’Wrestler of the Year’ title winner Dean Allmark (source All Star Wrestling, UK).

Rene's match against bruiser James Mason in Bristol included this hommage (left - Rocco tied up by The Amazing Kung Fu).

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Check here for updates on Rene's French and Switzerland tour.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Bristol Hippodrome results, 16 March,2009

"All tied up..." a dramatic moment in the match with James Mason (image by Emon Kazem)

Bristol Hippodrome results, 16 March, approx 700-800 crowd:

James Mason def. Rene Dupree
Man Mountain Kong def. Doug Williams
Gladiator Goliath def. Justin Starr

Elimination match (with tags, but elimination only by throwing over the top rope): Dean 2 Xtreme, Mikey Whiplash & Tony Spitfire def. Drake Younger, Sami Callihan and Chad Collyer

Mason & Little Legs def. Karl Krammer

Friday, March 13, 2009

SUPERB MATCH!! DUPREE VS WHIPLASH

photos by Rob Brazier, LastChancePhotographs - full coverage HERE

Results from tonight's very entertaining show from Hayes 13 March, 2009.

The Metal Master beat Tony Spitfire

WOS Rules Match
Rene Dupree went to a time limit draw with Mikey Whiplash (superb match)

Doug Williams beat Justin Starr

Gladiator Goliath beat Man Mountain Kong

James Mason and partner me beat "The New Horror" Sami Callihan and Drake Younger

Rene returns!! ... victory in Southampton

Simply the best body in wrestling .........

The French Phenom ees baaaack....!!

versus top British wrestler Doug Williams.....

Results from Southampton Guildhall on March 12th, 2009
full photo coverage to follow - Photos by Chris Hatch, British Wrestling Pictures

Metal Master beat Tony Spitfire
Rene Dupree beat Doug Williams
James Mason beat Man Mountain Kong by DQ
Gladiator Goliath beat Chippendale Whiplash
Wade Fitzgerald and Mark Haskins beat 'The American Nasty Boys' aka Drake Younger and Sami Callihan

Reviews (UKFF)

"It was one of those shows that got better as it went on. I thought Dupree v Williams could have been a lot better, too much stalling and time spent outside the ring doing nothing but stirring the crowd up. Tag match was really impressive though."

" ...pleased to see Rene is back."

Saturday, February 28, 2009

RENE DUPREE FIGHTING FIT FOR MAJOR DATES DURING MARCH

Rene Dupree returns !

French-Canadian globetrotter Rene Dupree, the man voted the top overseas visitor of 2008 in All Star’s ‘Wrestler of the Year’ Polls, returns to Britain to begin a two month tour with an appearance at Southampton Guildhall on Thursday March 12. Call the Guildhall box office on 02380-632601

Friday March 13 - Rene will be at the Beck Theatre, Hayes, with bookings on 0208-561-8371,

Monday March 16 - Rene will be at Bristol Hippodrome - a very special guest, the ‘Master of Disaster’ himself, ‘Rollerball’ Mark Rocco will be in attendance and introduced from the ring.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Where to see the Phenom in March and April ....

Rene starts with back with All Star Wrestling on 12 March in Southampton, and will follow the ASW tour until 17th March when he heads to Paris for the Rampage Tour

March 18th American Wrestling Rampage Paris FRANCE
March 20th American Wrestling Rampage Rouen FRANCE
March 21st American Wrestling Rampage Clermont Ferrand FRANCE
March 22nd American Wrestling Rampage Dijon FRANCE
March 24th American Wrestling Rampage Bordeaux FRANCE
March 26th American Wrestling Rampage Liege BELGIUM
March 27th American Wrestling Rampage Basel SWITZERLAND
March 28th American Wrestling Rampage Grenoble FRANCE
March 29th American Wrestling Rampage Nancy FRANCE
April 1st American Wrestling Rampage Lausanne SWITZERLAND

Then its back to London as All Star spreads its wings to represent the UK in Serbia, headed by none other than Frenchman Rene Dupree. Look out Serbia on 5 April.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Rene voted Overseas ‘Wrestler of the Year’

French-Canadian globetrotter Rene Dupree has been voted the top overseas visitor of 2008 in All Star Wrestling's ‘Wrestler of the Year’ Polls.

Rene has undergone a hernia operation in his native Quebec but is now back in training and looking forward to return to England for exclusive All Star appearances during March.

Rene receives a heroes welcome to Paris

Friday, January 16, 2009

Bret Hart on "the great French Canadian Sensation Rene Dupree."

Bret & Rene Dupree

"I had the pleasure of hanging out with the great French Canadian sensation Rene Dupree. He was schooled by his father, Emile Dupree, who was one of my all-time favorite wrestlers as a kid. He too was lucky enough to grow up watching the legendary Cormier family, The Beast Ivan, Leo, Rudy and Bobby Burke (all wrestling as the famous Burke Bros.), not to mention The Cuban Assassin and numerous other other Stampede Wrestling stalwarts. Rene was a huge fan favorite in France but still managed to show great versatility working in Ireland as a heel. Why the WWE let this talent go is a baffling mystery to me." (Bret Hart, writing on his recent European Tour )

Friday, November 21, 2008

Earlier on renedupree.net .....

an enjoyable, well-paced, match from one of Rene's first UK shows, Telford, England 1/2/08.

Rene Dupree & Carl Ouellette vs Deano & Kid Cool

Part 1

Part 2

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Street fight

Prince Of Wales Centre, Cannock
7/10/08
att:200 aprox

1 -TNT def. Adam Davies

2 - Phil Powers def. Chad Collyer

3 - Street Fight: Dean Allmark def. Rene Dupree (an 'amazing'match!!)

4 - Carl Oulett def. Phil Powers (taking the place of Pn Nuez)

5 - Ben Levy and Adam Davis def. TNT and Metal Master

see earlier post below for report and images

Part 1

Part 2

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

REWIND......

All Star Wrestling
Torquay, England
Rene Dupree vs Dean Allmark
22/02/08

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Friday, October 24, 2008

READING THE BODY ...

A FAN WRITES - People who can read Katakana, I need your help! Rene Dupree has a load of tattoos, what does the one across his chest & arm say?

I know without the left line, the chest one says like 'Yo', and the arm is ' maybe 'o'? Help?

Comment - it reads "Nippon" and simply means Japan. (I knew that degree in Japanese would be usefull one day XD

Rene Dupree vs Smackdown Warrior

Hull City Hall
Friday 17th October 2008

images courtesy of Mike Chesterfield - go here for full gallery

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

KING OF THE DANCE....

All Star Wrestling
Aylesbury Civic Centre
Monday, 20 October 2008

Bobby Fish beat Domino

Rene Dupree beat Smackdown Warrior

Deano and Kid Cool beat Metal Master and Eddie Edwards

Lee Thomas beat Ringo Ryan

James Mason and Little Legs beat Karl Kramer

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

SERIOUSLY AWESOME

ALL STAR WRESTLING
Fairfield Halls
CROYDON
Sunday 19 October, 2008 at 3pm
crowd 500

Smackdown Warrior defeated Corporal Punishment

Rene Dupree beat Domino

Ben Levy and Kid Cool beat Flash Edwards And Bobby Fish

Lias Fury beat Erin Angel

The next Generation beat Karl Kramer

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Rene Dupree was seriously pretty awesome in his contest with the dependable-enough Domino. Dupree used plenty of stalling tactics, but knew when to do what at the right time (this wasn't Larry Z-style stuff). He was easily 100-times more interesting than in anything I ever saw him do in WWE, and would be interested to see what he can do on non-ASW British shows.

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Rene Dupree pinned the 'Dynamic' Domino with a top rope splash in 13:23 (billed at 19 mins, I believe). Dupree is awesome. He was really good in the comedy tag in Doncaster the previous night (in a match that featured the French Tickler, which was sadly missing here...