Jacques Rougeau Claims Only 10% Booed Him at AEW Redemption, 90% Popped

Jacques Rougeau told Ben Veal on Wrestling Life that only about 10% of the crowd booed him when he took the microphone at AEW Redemption in Montreal. The audience reaction came during the Buy-In portion of the PPV, where AEW paid tribute to the Rougeau Family, bringing out Raymond and Jacques Rougeau.

That 10% figure is Jacques' own estimate, not an official measurement.

"I lit up. I started laughing. I made fun of it. I told them to kiss my ass," Rougeau said. "It felt so good and the reaction is so great."

According to Jacques, the 90% who loved him were upset at the 10% who were booing. When he told them to kiss his ass, the response was immediate.

"They popped big time. The 10% popped too," he said.

GOOD ROUGEAU, BAD ROUGEAU

Rougeau explained the “running gag” that has followed him and his brother for decades — the good Rougeau and the bad Rougeau. He rolls with it, he told Ben Veal on Wrestling Life, “because it’s kind of the truth.”

Raymond has always been the easygoing one, he said. “Whatever is put on his plate, he’ll eat. He’s very diplomatic. He’s always known how to sit between two people and please two people.”

Jacques contrasted himself sharply. “I’ve always been very prompt and quick on the trigger,” he said, which put him in positions throughout his career where he spoke his piece of mind. Looking back, he admitted, “business is business, and you should learn how to be more diplomatic.”

He attributed his bluntness to something deeper. “I guess that’s the autistic side of me, but I can’t; there is no gray zone with me,” Rougeau said.

That directness has cost him. “I made a lot of haters in the business,” he said, and he ties that reputation to his years of going against Vince McMahon. The specific reasons behind the Montreal crowd’s boos are not detailed beyond those general comments about making enemies.