20 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Held WWE Championships
4. The Mountie (Intercontinental Champion)
Jacques Rougeau was always a solid wrestler, and his work as a smarmy pro-Canadian, anti-American heel helped continue the longstanding tradition of “foreign menace” characters in wrestling. A former WWE Tag Team Champion, he was forced to singles action when his brother Ray retired in 1990, and Jacques became The Mountie.
He was a corrupt, cattle prod-wielding Canadian law enforcer who made a solid impact by feuding with the Big Boss Man, but his career didn’t peak until 1992. On January 17th, The Mountie scored a shock victory over Bret Hart to become WWE Intercontinental Champion, though it came with a caveat: Hart was undergoing contract negotiations at the time, and WWE didn’t want to risk him leaving with the belt (how ironic…).
It didn’t last long, however. The Mountie dropped the title to Rowdy Roddy Piper at the 1992 Royal Rumble just two days later, and his reign stood as the shortest in IC Title history for a number of years. He attempted to win it back from Piper a week later, but was unsuccessful.