Ex-Tag Champion Was Rushed To Hospital After Legit WWE Punishment

This well-known former WWE Tag Team Champion was subject to actual physical punishment from the authorities.

The early 2000s, dubbed the Ruthless Aggression Era in WWE, is memorable for its colourful but edgy characters, intense in-ring action, and often chaotic violence.

The tag team division was also stacked with the likes of WWE legends The Dudley Boyz, The Hardy Boyz, Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero, and many others. It also featured up-and-coming tag teams like La Resistance, which Rene Dupree and Sylvain Grenier made entertaining with their on-screen antics.

Dupree went on to become the youngest WWE Tag Team Champion at age 19 with La Resistance, but didn’t have a successful singles run and left the company in 2007 to wrestle in Japan’s independent circuit.

Rene Dupree now runs a successful YouTube channel called Cafe De Dupree, where he and his wrestling friends take the viewers “behind the curtain” to expose some of WWE’s dark secrets and politics. He discusses how wrestlers were treated backstage and given silent punishments by management via other wrestlers.

Rene Dupree Shoots On WWE Punishing Him By Ordering That He Be Busted Open

In a recent Countdown to 2026 episode on his former colleague Mr. Anderson’s channel, Dupree revealed how he was once attacked hard by D-Von Dudley with a flagpole in a planned move during their match on a 2003 episode of RAW and had his head busted open in the process.

Although the move was preordained, Dupree did not know until later that WWE’s higher-ups had instructed D-Von to lay the attack hard on his head. He went on to reveal the scary aspect of not knowing what he may have done wrong to receive this punishment, because the price he had to pay was eight staples to the wound and immediate hospitalization in Vancouver, Canada.

I had a match with Bubba Dudley one time on RAW—2003. And the finish of the match was: D-Von comes in, hits me with the flagpole. He actually busted my head open—eight staples.

I get to the back, and Bubba—Bubba’s a bit of a loudmouth—goes, ‘That was a direct order from the boss.’ And D-Von was like, ‘Yep, yep, it was.’

F**k knows what I did wrong. Maybe it was because we were in Australia the night before and I didn’t sit at the monitor to watch Flair and Michaels. That could possibly be it. That’s what I tell myself.

“If I were to lose my hair, there’s a big f**king scar right there. Eight staples.”

The story reveals one of many incidents that highlight WWE’s complex backstage drama.

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