Report: Jacques Rougeau Threw ‘Tantrum’ at Redemption

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that Jacques Rougeau and AEW didn’t see eye-to-eye at AEW Redemption over the weekend.

Redemption took place in Montreal, Quebec, where Rougeau and his family are wrestling icons.

Jacques attended the event with his brother Raymond and were shown in a segment honouring how their family has influenced the wrestling industry.

Dave Meltzer reported: “There was apparently some tension backstage, though, with Jacques throwing a “tantrum” over AEW refusing to play a tribute video that he gave them for the segment.”

Meltzer claims Jacques was almost removed from the arena due to his behaviour.

AEW had claimed the video was too long, contained copyrighted and AI-generated content.

Meltzer wrote in his report: “Jacques started talking and was booed heavily. While Jacques is very well known in town because of the family and his long tenure as a local wrestling celebrity in a market where wrestling is more mainstream than most North American cities, he’s also developed a bad reputation particularly in the area’s wrestling world. There was just a recent incident we covered not that many weeks ago. But there are local stories like that going back decades. He’s done so many retirement matches that local media doesn’t trust him. Many area independent wrestlers want nothing to do with shows he’s involved with.”