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Quebec produced a nice crop of colourful native heels, with a big boom in the late 60s-early 70s, post Quiet Revolution. With Quebec's culture being so vibrant & revolutionary at the time, Montreal's promotions needed to enlist, create & build up their own native bad guys who could talk the East End masses into coming down to the Forum by cutting promos on the likes of the Rougeau brothers & Edouard Carpentier. Some of these guys got big play in American promotions as strongmen, lumberjacks, mad men & legionnaires. Most of them were natural heels who excelled in the role, & even perennial babyfaces made shockingly good heels. In a lot of cases, when playing to anglophone audiences, they played up French stereotypes & tried to draw heat based on their nationality. Some claimed foreign birth to heighten their ethnic exoticism. Most were good to excellent workers with colourful personalities.
Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon - the archetypal Quebec heels
Tarzan Tyler
Jacques/Rene Goulet - the Legionnaire
Pat Patterson - anglicized for Yank audiences
Jos LeDuc - the lumberjack, strongman, mad man rolled into one, big down South
Michel "Justice" DuBois - abandoned Canada for the Soviet Union
The Hangman
Frenchy Martin - a career playing up French stereotypes
Michel Martel - the Legionnaire
Gilles Poisson - strongman
Maxime Zarinoff LeBeouf - the Legionnaire
Pierre Lefebvre - mid-career turn into Mad Dog, a natural heel
Richard Charland - should've been bigger
Raymond Rougeau - who knew?
Jacques "The Mountie" Rougeau Jr.
Rick "The Model" Martel
Pierre-Carl Ouelette
Non-francophone Quebecker heels included
Ivan Koloff
Ronnie Garvin
Bob & Rocky Dellaserra
Dino Bravo
& Acadian francophone wrestlers who effectively played heel included
Leo Burke
Terry Kay
Rudy Kay
Stephen Petitpas
Hubert Gallant
plus le francophonie Gerry Morrow, a migrant from Martinique, had a late career revival as one half of the Cuban Commandos.
Conclusion:
French Canadians & other Quebeckers make good bad guys.
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August 22nd, 2015 08:41 GMT |
 
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This message was edited by fan70s on August 22nd, 2015 08:44 GMT
3 to add to your Acadian list: The Beast (Yvon Cormier) aka Brute & Beast Martin in Quebec;
Freddie Sweetan & Paul Peller
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| Patric |
January 14th, 2016 05:37 GMT |
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Non-francophone Quebecker heels included
Ivan Koloff
Ronnie Garvin
Bob & Rocky Dellaserra
Dino Bravo
Koloff is not a Quebecer
Garvin and Bravo are two francophones!
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Pat Laprade
www.lutte.com
www.quebecwrestling.ca
Co-author of Mad Dogs, Midgets and ScrewJobs: The Untold Story of How Montreal Shaped the World of Wrestling (ECW Press, February 2013)
Freelancer for RDS and SLAM! Wrestling
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