bluenoser
Junior Heavyweight
The Bluenose II
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Well Sniper, Emile certainly has rewritten the history of Grand Prix Wrestling, Emile did give the Cormiers their first training, and probably arranged their training tour in Indianapolis, he was also with them on their first tour of Australia, so he may have booked that trip, he might have hooked them up with JCP & Stampede as well, but that was in the 60's, before ESA was created by Kay and Zinck. Grand Prix did not get it's start by Dupre forming a troupe of wrestlers around The Beast and Rudy Kay, it was started in Montreal circa 71, by a group of wrestlers headed by Paul Vachon, Dupre may have been a jr partner, Atlantic Grand Prix originated from Dupre forming a troupe from surplus GP wrestlers and touring the Maritimes in competition to Rudy Kay, Actually in the early 70's The Beast wrestled in Montreal in Competition to GP as well as in the Maritimes. It's possible that Dupre promoted cards in New Brunswick and even small towns in Nova Scotia, in the 60's, but Len Hughes had the Halifax Forum until 66, there are no results for 67, someone had the Forum in 68, but Emile and the Cormiers were in Dartmouth with a different crew (Beast vs Rocky Johnson were the main events), and Ron Thomas is listed as their promoter, but Emile may have booked. In 69 ESA took of with a lock on the Forum until 77, Emile Dupre never had any involvement with that promotion, and as far as I know, none of the Cormiers worked for AGPW before 1979, even though in 89, they were given a cake to celebrate 15 years with AGPW. Like Rudy however, Dupre never pushed himself (as a wrestler) either.
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