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MONTREAL — Members of one of Quebec’s most famous wrestling families will enter the squared circle one last time Saturday as local legend Jacques Rougeau hangs up his boots for good.

When he wrestles with his three sons for the first and last time at Stade IGA on Saturday as part of a show he’s promoting, the 58-year-old insists it will be his last hurrah and that of his clan.

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“Tomorrow night is my last show, with my three sons,” Rougeau said in an interview Friday, sometimes fighting back tears. “I think it’s the end — it’s been 75 years, but we did good, the Rougeaus did really good.”

The Rougeau family has been involved in wrestling dating back to the 1940s and spanning four generations.

But Rougeau said his three sons — aged 28, 25 and 18 — simply don’t want to carry on with what has been the family business.

Rougeau is best known to a generation of wrestling fans as one-half of famous tag teams that are part of World Wrestling Federation lore, including The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers with his brother Raymond and, later, The Quebecers, with another local product, Carl Ouellet.