Three-time WWE Tag Team Champion Announces Retirement

Former WWE talent Carl Ouellet, 43, announced his retirement from professional wrestling Tuesday during an interview with the largest radio station in Quebec, CKAC. He had not wrestled since June, in a match against TNA Wrestling star Desmond Wolfe.

Ouellet, who began wrestling professionally in 1987, competed under a variety of alias over the course of his 24-year wrestling career including Pierre-Carl Ouellette (or Ouellet), Pierre of the Quebecers and Jean-Pierre Lafitte. He worked for four of largest promotions in the United States; World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Ouellet is a three-time WWE World Tag Team Champion, having won the strap three times with Jacques Rougeau in 1993 and 1994. He also won the WCW Hardcore Championship during his brief stint with World Championship Wrestling in August 2000.

Ouellet confirmed to SLAM! Wrestling today that his wrestling career is over.

"I wrestled in more than 30 countries, on all five continents. I was three-time WWE tag team champion, I've wrestled against the best of my era and for all the major promotions," Ouellet said. "When you choose wrestling as your career, you don't have space for anything else in your life. Wrestling becomes your life. But after a while, you realize that there is more than wrestling. I have other projects I want to work on, but I couldn't invest myself 100% in those with wrestling still around."

Following an extensive stint overseas during the latter portion of his career, Ouellet declared during an interview with SLAM! Wrestling that he would like another run with WWE. He worked a few tryout matches in 2007, but was not hired. Ouellet claimed during a 2009 interview with Monday Night Mayhem that Vince McMahon shoved him into wall backstage after attempting to thank him for giving him another opportunity.

"After the show, I asked Mike Rotunda, I said, 'Should I wait for their phone call or should I wait and thank Vince for the opportunity?' Mike said, 'No Carl. You should wait for Vince and thank him. So it'll be fresh in his memory, you know? ' So I'm just waiting at the end of the SmackDown show. He's coming out and it's maybe 12:30 or 1 a.m. And I go, "Vince, I just want to…" And he shoved me into the wall like I was a piece of crap. I felt pretty bad."

Ouellet wrestled throughout his career with a glass eye. He lost his right eye at the age of twelve when a friend accidentally shot him in the eye with a pellet gun.

I highly doubt Vince just pushed him into a wall.

I thought he'd been retired, shit lol

I don't believe Vince shoved him into a wall, that or what he is saying is an over-the-top account of what really happened, who knows. Doesn't matter much, does it?

King Silva "Xander" wrote:

There are 7 continents not 5 dude..

But he didn't wrestle on Antartica or Africa.

So he wrestled on all 5 contenents the WWE travels in (which is also a lie) because i don't think WWE ever wrestled in south america (though we learned America is shared in 3 pieces, North, Mid and south but for some reason the North-Mid america were always one)

Soo I know what he meant when he said all 5 continents...now if he wrestled in Antartica and afrika then he is wrong. If not, then he is completly right.

Plus i don't think he wrestled in south america....so he is still kinda wrong lol.

Also:

7 continents - North America - South America - Antarctica - Africa - Europe - Asia -Australia
6 continents - North America - South America - Antarctica - Africa - Eurasia - Australia
6 continents - America - Antarctica - Africa - Europe - Asia - Australia
5 continents - America - Africa - Europe - Asia - Australia
5 continents - America - Antarctica - Africa - Eurasia - Australia
4 continents - America - Antarctica - Afro Eurasia - Australia

The seven-continent model is usually taught in China and most English-speaking countries. The six-continent combined-Eurasia model is preferred by the geographic community, the former states of the USSR (including Russia), and Japan. The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America, and some parts of Europe, including Greece, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. This model may be taught to include only the five inhabited continents (excluding Antarctica),as depicted in the Olympic logo.

The terms Oceania or Australasia are sometimes substituted for Australia to denote a continent encompassing the Australian mainland and various islands of the Pacific Ocean not part of other continents. For example, the Atlas of Canada names Oceania, as does the model taught in Latin America and Iberia.

Took me a while to figure out who this guy was. He never entertained me, and was easily forgettable. This doesn't make a difference to the world of wrestling.