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Street Profits

The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. They are signed to WWE and perform on the SmackDown brand.

They are four-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Smackdown Tag Team Championship, Raw's World Tag Team Championship and The NXT Tag Team Championship once each and are the second WWE Tag Team Triple Crown Champions. This makes them one of only three teams (the other two being The Revival and The New Day) to achieve this while now being the fastest to do so in 499 days. They had a combined 312-day reign as tag team champions on both the Raw and SmackDown brands.

Gary Gordon and Kenneth Crawford signed a contract with WWE in 2012 and 2015 respectively. Gordon, under the ring name Angelo Dawkins, initially was the hype man for Sasha Banks, later becoming a part of a tag team in the NXT brand for two years alongside Sawyer Fulton. The team of Dawkins and Crawford debuted on the March 16, 2016 episode of NXT (taped on January 21), where they lost to The Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley); this marked Crawford's in-ring debut.

On the July 12, 2017 episode of NXT, Dawkins and Crawford (now renamed Montez Ford) started appearing in weekly vignettes as The Street Profits. They made their return on the August 9 episode of NXT as fan favorites, defeating the Metro Brothers. The Street Profits would go on a winning streak, defeating the likes of The Ealy Brothers, Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli, and local wrestlers. On the January 17, 2018 episode of NXT, The Street Profits suffered their first loss to The Authors of Pain (Akam and Rezar), failing to earn a NXT Tag Team Championship match at NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia on January 27. Later on, they entered the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, where they defeated Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic and Tucker Knight) in the first round, but were eliminated by AOP in the semifinals.

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 Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, and The Forgotten Sons (Jaxson Ryker, Steve Cutler, and Wesley Blake) got involved. A four-way tag team ladder match for the NXT Tag Team Championship was scheduled for NXT TakeOver: XXV between The Street Profits, Lorcan and Burch, The Forgotten Sons, and The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish). At NXT TakeOver: XXV on June 1, they won the NXT Tag Team Championship for the first time. On the July 10 episode of NXT, The Street Profits retained the titles against Lorcan and Burch, but on the August 15 tapings of NXT, they lost the NXT Tag Team Championship to O'Reilly and Fish. During this time, they started appearing on Raw in 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, formally bringing them to the show. On the October 21 episode of Raw, the Street Profits defeated Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in their debut match. At Survivor Series on November 24, 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 on February 27, where they would be unsuccessful.

On the March 2 episode of Raw, the Street Profits were given a final opportunity "Last Chance Match" rematch, and with the help of Kevin Owens, they won the Raw Tag Team Championship. Later backstage, Rollins and Murphy challenged them to a rematch for the titles at Elimination Chamber on March 8, where the Street Profits retained the titles. They retained their titles again by defeating Angel Garza and Austin Theory on the second night of WrestleMania 36 on April 5. In the following weeks, the Street Profits feuded 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 on June 14, they 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 retained the titles against The Viking Raiders, thus ending the feud. They then defended their titles against Andrade and Angel Garza successfully at SummerSlam on August 23 and at Clash of Champions on September 27.

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