On the latest episode of his My World podcast, recorded live after AEW Redemption, Jeff Jarrett reacted to Jacques Rougeau drawing boos from the Montreal crowd during the tribute to the Rougeau family’s 80 years in wrestling — and telling the fans to kiss his ass. Jarrett, who goes back decades with Rougeau, wasn’t surprised. You can check out his comments below:
“You don’t know Jacques. His brother Ray is a politician now. God bless Jacques — we had him on here, and he was talking about his video game. Me and him go so far back. He came to Memphis, worked for my father. I’ve always had a good, punk, joking relationship with him. He walked through catering, I started giving him a hard time right away.”
“I just shook my head. I’m like, dude, you’re up here and we’re celebrating you, and you’re going to let the bluebirds get you. And they did. But that’s Jacques. He just could not leave it alone. You’re going to have lightning rods, you’re going to have heel fans, you’re going to have haters. If they want to boo the hell out of you, just bring it. But in that kind of platform, when they’re celebrating 80 years of the Rougeaus, I would have thought he’d just let it roll out of respect for his brother Ray and the Rougeau family name. I didn’t think he had any place saying kiss my ass. But Jacques will be Jacques until the day Jacques is no longer with us.”
Jarrett also shared a piece of Memphis history when a listener asked about Rougeau’s old entrance music:
“What an unbelievable memory. I believe you’re right — I’m almost positive it was ‘Dirty Laundry’ by Don Henley. Back in those days there was no production meeting. There was a boombox and a cassette that you carried with yourself, so your ring music was pretty much whatever you wanted. Lawler got first dibs on the hottest song, and then it trickled down from there. That’s a good question to ask that knucklehead. I’m sure he sang it a lot and annoyed everybody in the dressing room.”
