SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Pierre Carl Ouellet

The Quebecers, Ouellet, left and Rougeau at our CANOE offices March 27, 1998. -- John Powell, CANOE.

REAL NAME: Carl Ouellet
6'1", 300 pounds
BORN: December 30, 1967 in Ville Ste-Catherine, Quebec
ALIASES/ NICKNAMES: Jean-Pierre Lafitte, The Pirate, Killer Karl Wallace, Pierre Ouellette, one half of the Super Bees with Eddie Watts

  Pierre Carl Ouellet was an unknown until Jacques Rougeau met him in Puerto Rico in 1993. He had been travelling here and there, but never made a name for himself.

  After some time away from the WWF, Rougeau was ready to go back and took Ouellet as his tag partner. The Quebecers were formed, with Johnny Polo (now Raven in WCW) as their manager. They held the WWF tag titles on three occasions, but Canadians everywhere will remember their first win -- with much help from Johnny Polo (decked out in a Montreal Canadiens jersey) and a hockey stick.

  Later, Rougeau decided he had had enough again, and Ouellet wrestled as a singles wrestler as The Pirate for about a year in the WWF. He had a feud with Bret Hart, and a double countout match against then-champ Kevin Nash in Montreal. But the gimmick didn't really ever take hold.

  But when Rougeau decided to lace up the boots again, the two were signed by WCW as the Amazing French Connection. They were the same tag team, but never hit the heights in WCW that they had in the WWF. In mid-1997, they were released by WCW.
  Ouellet uses a Cannonball as his finishing move. He wears an eye
patch over his right eye because he lost that eye when he was 12 after an accident with a gun.

 In early 1998, the Quebecers returned to the WWF. That didn't last, however, and Ouellet found himself on a WWF deal, just sitting on the sidelines. He made a couple of trips to Japan as well.