Bruce Prichard Remembers ‘Scary’ Backstage Fight Between Jacques Rougeau And Dynamite Kid

“I remember walking by [the catering area], and the amount of blood was scary,” Prichard continued. “It was like a faucet — I don’t know if you’ve ever seen those things where somebody gets hit in the face and the blood just starts pouring out. That’s what it was like. There were also teeth on the ground.” Eventually, Pat Patterson stopped the fight, and once everyone was broken up, the WWE roster was summoned to an emergency meeting presided over by Patterson, Vince McMahon, and Hulk Hogan. When asked why Hogan presided over the meeting, Prichard said: “Because he was the top guy. He was making sure that nothing more was going to happen.”

In the aftermath of the incident, the Bulldogs and Rougeaus were on opposing sides at the 1988 Survivor Series. Naturally, there were rumors of their rift blowing over into the ring, with the possibility of Dynamite and Jacques “shooting” against one another. Prichard was quick to squash those rumors, suggesting that the teams were simply “working” and carried themselves as professionals.  “Look, I’m sure the Dynamite held bad feelings for Jacques Rougeau until the day he passed,” Prichard admitted. “I think most people felt Dynamite finally got what he deserved, because of the way he ribbed and treated people.” 

“Dynamite wasn’t a nice guy,” Prichard added. He ribbed people unmercifully, in a mean way, and a lot of folks felt he was a bully. I’m not saying Jacques was the most-liked guy in the dressing room, but at the same time, people respected Jacques for standing up to the bully. By the time we got to Survivor Series, that was just people making up gossip and situations that weren’t necessarily true.” Prichard clarified that though the two men were not “buddy-buddy,” they “weren’t adversarial backstage” to the point where they couldn’t work together. Incidentally, the Bulldogs quit WWE shortly after that pay-per-view event.

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