The Street Profits
The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand. They are three-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Tag Team Championship once each, which also makes them one of only two teams (the other being The Revival), to be Tag Team Triple Crown Champions in WWE. They had a combined 312-day reign as tag team champions on both the Raw and SmackDown brands. History. WWE. Early years (2016–2019). The team  of Angelo Dawkins and Kenneth Crawford debuted on the March 16, 2016 episode of "NXT", (taped on January 21), where they were defeated by The Hype Bros. The team would continue to work at house shows. On the July 12, 2017 episode of "NXT", Crawford (now renamed Montez Ford) and Dawkins started appearing in weekly vignettes as The Street Profits. On the August 9 episode of "NXT", they made their return by defeating The Metro Brothers. The Street Profits would go on a winning streak, defeating the likes of The Ealy Twins, Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli, and local wrestlers . On January 17, 2018, The Street Profits suffered their first loss to The Authors of Pain (AOP) (Akam and Rezar), failing to earn a NXT Tag Team Championship match at . Later on, they entered the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, where they would defeat Heavy Machinery (Tucker Knight and Otis Dozovic) in the first round, but were eliminated by AOP in the semifinals. The Street Profits once again entered the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic in 2019, but were defeated by Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) in the first round. Tag team championship reigns (2019–present). On the  May 1, 2019 episode of "NXT", The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) vacated the NXT Tag Team Championship, but were immediately challenged by The Street Profits. The match ended in a disqualification after The Forgotten Sons and Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch got involved. A four-way tag team ladder match for the NXT Tag Team Championship was later scheduled for between The Street Profits, Lorcan and Burch, The Forgotten Sons, and The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish). At NXT TakeOver: XXV, they won the NXT Tag Team Championship for the first time. On the July 10 episode  of "NXT", Street Profits made their first successful title defense against Lorcan and Burch, but on the August 15 tapings of "NXT", they would lose the NXT Tag Team Championship to O'Reilly and Fish. Starting on July 1, The Street Profits started appearing on "Raw" doing various backstage segments, a move that was said to be done in order to appeal to younger audiences. It was clarified by Dave Meltzer that the team were still NXT wrestlers and that this was not an official move to Raw. As part of the 2019 Draft in October, The Street Profits were drafted  to the Raw brand, officially bringing them to the show. On the October 21 edition of "Raw", The Street Profits defeated Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in their debut match. At Survivor Series, The Street Profits competed in a 10-team Interbrand Tag Team Battle Royal where they were the last team eliminated by the eventual winners, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. The team would hardly wrestle on "Raw" during their first few months on the main roster but mostly spent time backstage hyping up the shows. This was being done because Paul Heyman (who was executive director of "Raw  at the time) wanted to get their personalities out more to help them get more over with the fans, in front of a wider audience which ended up working for all parties involved later on. On the December 9 episode of Raw", The Street Profits answered an open challenge for a title bout issued by Raw Tag Team Champions The Viking Raiders, where The Viking Raiders retained. Four weeks later, The Street Profits were given another shot at the Viking Raiders' tag team titles, this time in a triple threat match that also involved Gallows and Anderson where The Viking  Raiders retained once again. On the February 17, 2020 episode of "Raw", after Kevin Owens and The Viking Raiders defeated Murphy and AOP via disqualification due to Seth Rollins' interference, The Street Profits came out and aided Owens and The Viking Raiders by attacking Murphy and AOP while Rollins retreated. Later, The Street Profits were scheduled to challenge Rollins and Murphy for the Raw Tag Team Championship at Super ShowDown, where they would be unsuccessful. On the March 2 episode of "Raw", The Street Profits were given a final opportunity "Last Chance Match" rematch, where, with the help of Kevin  Owens, they would go on to win the Raw Tag Team Championship. Later backstage, Rollins and Murphy challenged them to a rematch for the titles at Elimination Chamber, where the Street Profits retained the titles. They retained their titles again by defeating Angel Garza and Austin Theory on night two of Wrestlemania 36. On the May 4 episode of 'Raw' they lost in a non-title match to the Viking Raiders. In the following weeks, The Street Profits would feud with The Viking Raiders as they faced each other in several competitions such as a game of basketball, axe-throwing , golf, bowling, and a decathlon which was later dubbed as the "Anything You Can Do, We Can Do Better" series. The series would end with a 3–3 tie between the Street Profits and The Viking Raiders. At Backlash, The Street Profits were set to face the Viking Raiders, but the match did not start due to them brawling outside the building, being accosted by Akira Tozawa and a group of ninjas, and ending up in a dumpster. On the June 22 episode of Raw, The Street Profits successfully defended their Tag Team Titles against The Viking Raiders thus ending the  feud. They then defended their titles against Andrade and Angel Garza successfully at SummerSlam and again at Clash of Champions. As part of the 2020 Draft in October, Dawkins and Ford were drafted to the SmackDown brand. They would then trade the Raw Tag Team Championship to The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) - who had just been drafted to the Raw brand - in exchange for the latter team's SmackDown Tag Team Championship. This would make The Street Profits the second team to acquire the WWE Tag Team Triple Crown. Upon moving to "SmackDown", they began a feud  with the team of Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. On the December 18 edition of "SmackDown", The Street Profits successfully defended the titles against Roode and Ziggler. On the January 1 edition of "SmackDown", The Street Profits held a celebration while calling out Ziggler and Roode in the process, leading to an assault on The Street Profits by Ziggler and Roode. The following day on "Talking Smack", it was announced that The Street Profits would be defending the SmackDown Tag Team Championship again the following week. On the January 8 edition of "SmackDown", Ziggler and Roode defeated The Street Profits  to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, ending their reign at a recorded 88 days. On the February 26 edition of "SmackDown", the Street Profits defeated Sami Zayn and King Corbin in a tag team match. On April 9 and April 16, 2021, The Street Profits unsuccessfully challenged for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles one of which was in a Fatal 4 Way whilst the other being their rematch clause against Ziggler and Roode. On the June 11 episode of "SmackDown", Ford suffered a partial rib fracture from Otis. It was announced that Ford would be out of action for  months. After Ford's injury, Dawkins started to appear in singles matches against Otis. As part of the 2021 Draft, The Street Profits were drafted to the "Raw" brand. At Day 1 on January 1, they challenged RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) for the Raw Tag Team Championships in a losing effort. At Royal Rumble, Ford and Dawkins entered the Royal Rumble match at #6 and #10, respectively, but would both go on to lose. Evolve (2018–2019). On October 28, 2018, The Street Profits made their first appearance at Evolve 114, winning the Evolve Tag Team Championship by defeating  The Doom Patrol (Chris Dickinson and Jaka). They would successfully defend the titles against the likes of The WorkHorsemen, AR Fox and Leon Ruff, Austin Theory and Harlem Bravado, and The Skulk. At Evolve 123, they lost the titles to The Unwanted. On March 16, 2019, they made their final Evolve appearance as a tag team at Evolve 124, teaming with Velveteen Dream to defeat The Unwanted in a six-man tag team match. Other media. The Street Profits made their video game debut as playable characters in "WWE 2K19" and have since appeared in "WWE 2K20" and "WWE 2K22 ." Personal lives. Dawkins was born Gary Gordon on July 24, 1990. He is from Fairfield, Ohio and was an amateur wrestler at Harper College. In July 2020, Dawkins announced via Twitter that he had become a father to a baby boy. He is a supporter of the Cincinnati Bengals. Ford was born Kenneth Crawford on May 31, 1990. He is from Chicago, Illinois and served in the United States Marine Corps. Ford is married to fellow professional wrestler Bianca Belair, and has two children from a previous relationship.