10 Insane Lengths Wrestlers Went To Get Revenge For Real

6. Dynamite Kid Incontrovertibly Proves The Concept Of Karma To Be Real

Raymond Jacques Rougeau Wwe
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Attempting to batter the hardest and most unhinged guy in any locker room, when you yourself are hardly known as a shooter, is very much an insane length to go - but Jacques Rougeau felt he had to resort to it.

He was living a life of torment in 1988 and, to compound the misery, everybody else thought less of him for being bullied by Tom Billington. Few were going to sympathise with Rougeau publicly; the Dynamite Kid was a nasty, vindictive piece of work, which is actually a euphemistic way of saying that he was a bone-deep sociopath. As such, nobody wanted to feel the backdraft of their heat.

The heat sparked into a shoot blood feud when Jacques, seething and depressed over Kid's witless ribs, was said to have "stooged him off". Kid retaliated by knocking f*ck out of him and, whenever they next crossed paths, lording the beating over him.

Jacques took the nuclear option, and is said to have practised his revenge by placing a mattress against a wall in every motel room he stayed in for a month solid. He taught himself the art of the sucker punch, knowing he stood little chance beyond a flash stroke of luck. He'd sit there, doing nothing, and then spring up and punch it.

This paid off; Rougeau popped the Kid, and when the red mist descended and Kid was prone, he didn't stop cracking him until he was dragged off.

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