Pierre Carl Ouellet

Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet (born December 30, 1967) is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, PCO (originally a contraction of his long-term former ring name Pierre Carl Ouellet, but now standing for Perfect Creation One).

He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a former member of the Honor No More stable.

Ouellet is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling as one-half of The Quebecers/The Amazing French Canadians with Jacques Rougeau (with whom he held the WWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions).

Carl Ouellet debuted in 1987.

He worked on the independent circuit – at one point forming a tag team with "Evil" Eddie Watts known as the "Super Bees".

He also worked in South Africa and Germany.

In January 1993, Ouellet began wrestling for the International Wrestling Association in Puerto Rico.

While working in Puerto Rico, he was offered a try-out with the World Wrestling Federation.

In 1993, Ouellet joined the World Wrestling Federation as the tag team partner of Jacques Rougeau.

As one half of The Quebecers, Ouellet adopted the name "Pierre" and dressed like Mounties.

This was a reference to Jacques's previous gimmick, The Mountie, which had been banned in Canada due to concern that the heelish character of The Mountie would lead to children mistrusting legitimate Mounties.

The Quebecers sang their own entrance theme, in which they stated that, contrary to appearances, "We're not the Mounties".

Later in the year they were joined by manager, Johnny Polo.

The Quebecers held the WWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions.

On September 13, 1993, they defeated the Steiner Brothers for the tag titles (under "Province of Quebec Rules", which provided for titles changing hands on disqualifications).

They were defeated by the 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty on January 10, 1994, and again by Men on a Mission on March 29 (during a tour of England) but each time regained the titles within days.

They lost the belts a third and final time to The Headshrinkers on the May 2 episode of Monday Night Raw in Burlington, Vermont.

After losing to The Headshrinkers at a house show in July, that led to Pierre's sneak attack on Jacques.

The feud culminated in the former partners' wrestling one another in Rougeau's retirement match on October 21, 1994, in Montreal, main-eventing a sold-out house show.

After Jacques retired, Ouellet worked in house shows.

In March 1995, Ouellet was repackaged as "Jean-Pierre LaFitte", the supposed descendant of the pirate Jean LaFitte.

As a pirate he wore an eyepatch over his blind right eye.

He engaged in a three-month feud with Bret Hart and stole the mirrored sunglasses that Hart handed to fans at ringside.

After LaFitte stole Hart's trademark leather jacket, the enemies faced one another at In Your House 3 on September 24, 1995, where Hart forced Ouellet to submit by using the Sharpshooter.

In his Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer described this pay-per-view match as the "show saver" and an "excellent match."

Hart later recalled, "In a lot of ways, I loved working with guys like him. He was a guy, that when he threw you in the ropes, he really threw you in the rope...everything he did was power, and at the same time he was a very safe guy.... He took a lot of pride in his work, he really wanted to have a great match with me...And so we worked really hard, and it was a really good match."

Ouellet's WWF career came to an end after an alleged legitimate conflict with The Kliq, a backstage group including main-event wrestlers Shawn Michaels and Diesel.

According to Shane Douglas, who was working with the company at that time, a match pitting LaFitte against Nash, then the WWF Champion, in a house show in LaFitte's hometown Montreal was booked to end without a clean finish, with Lafitte winning by either DQ or countout, enabling the WWF to return to Montreal for a rematch at a later time.

However, due to backstage politicking by Shawn Michaels the booking was reversed into a clean pinfall for Diesel.

In turn, LaFitte refused to be pinned by Diesel and the match ended in a double-countout.

Due to his refusal to put Diesel over, LaFitte was buried due to the Kliq's influence.

Ouellet left the WWF in November 1995.

In September 1996, Ouellet reunited with Jacques Rougeau and moved to World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where the duo was known as The Amazing French Canadians.

They wore more traditional wrestling gear, but failed to duplicate the success they had found in the WWF.

They had the distinction of losing to Arn Anderson and Steve "Mongo" McMichael in Anderson's last match.

The Amazing French Canadians were managed by Col. Robert Parker (who began dressing in a French Foreign Legion uniform), and they began feuding with Harlem Heat as a result of tension between Parker and Harlem Heat's manager, Sister Sherri.

After Harlem Heat defeated the Amazing French Canadians at World War 3 on November 24, 1996, Sherri won the right to fight Parker for three minutes.

After retiring in 2011, Ouellet returned to the ring in 2016, undergoing a career renaissance with the gimmick of "part beast-turned-man, part old-time strongman".

From 2018 to 2021, Ouellet wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he was a ROH World Champion, ROH World Tag Team Champion, and ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion.

Other promotions Ouellet has wrestled for include Extreme Championship Wrestling, the International Wrestling Association, and Major League Wrestling.