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Cryme Tyme
JTG (left) and Shad Gaspard
Tag team
MembersShad Gaspard
JTG
Name(s)Shad Gaspard and The Neighborhoodie
The Gang Stars
Cryme Tyme
Billed heightsGaspard:[1]
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
JTG:[2]
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Combined
billed weight		[undue weight? – discuss][2][1]
Debut2006

Cryme Tyme was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Shad Gaspard and JTG that was signed to World Wrestling Entertainment and wrestled on the company's RAW brand from October 2006 to September 2007.[2][1] Their gimmick was a parody of stereotypical black street thugs.[2][1]

History

Shad Gaspard and The Neighborhoodie first began teaming in the summer of 2006 in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) "developmental territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).[3] They originally simply went under their ring names before adopting the team name The Gang Stars.[4] In OVW they captured the Southern Tag Team Titles in May of 2006 by defeating Roadkill and Kasey James,[5] holding them for two months before losing them to CM Punk and Seth Skyfire.[6]

In late 2006, WWE promoted The Gangs Stars to the main RAW brand, starting by having them work house shows and dark matches. On the September 4 episode of RAW, vignettes began airing to promote the debut of the team, now dubbed Cryme Tyme, showing them "training" for pending debut on the show.[7] Before the vignettes aired WWE placed a statement on their website, WWE.com, stating:[8]

Tonight a new tag team, Cryme Tyme, will be introduced to the RAW audience. In an effort to humor and entertain our fans the tag team known as Cryme Tyme will be parodying racial stereotypes.

Shad Gaspard and JTG do outlandish, outrageous "stunts" to ready themselves for tag team action on RAW. This attempt at Saturday Night Live-like humor is bound to entertain audiences of all ethnic derivations.

We hope you enjoy the weekly adventures of Cryme Tyme.

The vignettes, which aired weekly, featured Cryme Tyme robbing people while an (overly and stereotypically uncool sounding) announcer dubbed their actions "training exercises" designed to work on things like "speed", "agility", "drive", "endurance", and "intensity".view Cryme Tyme wrestled as faces in their house show and dark matches, finally making their television debut — a win over Johnny and Mikey of the Spirit Squad[9] — as such on the October 16 RAW.

After arriving on RAW they were depicted covertly stealing things - such as Jerry Lawler's laptop,[10] Deuce 'N Domino's car,[11] and a plasma screen TV[12] - during interviews and while celebrating wins with the commentary team.

On November 5, the team made their pay-per-view debut at Cyber Sunday, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, The Highlanders (Rory and Robbie McAllister), and Charlie Haas & Viscera in a four team (eight man) tornado tag team match.[13] Later that same month they were featured in a RAW segment that parodied Michael Richards's "Laugh Factory incident".[14] In the skit, a wrestler (Nick Berk) — acting as a stand in for Richards — recreated the scene of the incident by using the same racial slurs and insults until Cryme Tyme confronted him on stage. Nervous, he offered an apology, but Gaspard kicked him in the head and JTG made a Seinfeld-esque joke, saying "What's the deal with the Bloods and the Crips? Can't they all just get along?". This event was the beginning of a series of vignettes and skits featuring Cryme Tyme interacting with different, unexpected audiences.[15][16]

Around the same time they began a program with the reuniting World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas), during which Benjamin began to express disgust with Cryme Tyme's antics, calling them offensive and harmful to the black community.[17] During the storyline Haas started "acting black", but after the World's Greatest Tag Team handed Cryme Tyme their first loss on the January 29 2007 RAW,[18] the program was seemingly dropped, with Cryme Tyme appearing mainly on RAW's sister show Heat, only appearing on RAW in backstage segments.

On July 21 2007, Cryme Tyme appeared at an Ohio Valley Wrestling event and defeated the OVW Southern Tag Team Champion James Boys (K.C. and Kassidy James) to take the title.[19][20] At the next weeks television tapings the James Boys were again announced as Champions, with no explanation of how they won the title back being offered.[21]

The duo returned to RAW in July and started a gimmick where they would "steal" items and auction them off to the crowd.[22] They then began a program with the World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in August,[23][24] but JTG and Shad were released from their WWE contracts on September 2 2007 before the feud was resolved.[25]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Superstars > Raw > Shad > Profile". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  2. ^ a b c d "Superstars > Raw > JTG > Profile". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  3. ^ "OVW results for 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06. February 1 - Club Life b The Neighborhoodies in the amateur showcase dark match with dual 450 splashes.
  4. ^ "Cryme Tyme profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  5. ^ "OVW results for 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06. May 24 - Shad Gaspar[d] & The Neighborhoodie b Amish Roadkill & Kasey James to win the Tag Team titles
  6. ^ "OVW results for 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06. July 28 - C.M. Punk & Seth Skyfire b Shad Gaspard & Neighborhoodie to win the Tag Team titles
  7. ^ "RAW results - September 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  8. ^ "TV Shows > Raw > Archive > 09/04/2006 > Cryme Tyme debuts on RAW". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  9. ^ "RAW results - October 16, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  10. ^ Andrew Rote. "Cryme Tyme steals Four Team Tag Match". WWE.com. Retrieved 2006-11-05.
  11. ^ "SmackDown! results - June 29, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  12. ^ "RAW results - October 30, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  13. ^ PWI Staff (2007). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts". "Wrestling’s historical cards". Kappa Publishing. p. 122.
  14. ^ "RAW results - November 27, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  15. ^ "RAW results - December 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  16. ^ "RAW results - December 18, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
  17. ^ "RAW results - December 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-06. Shelton Benjamin came in and said Cryme Tyme was perpetrating a bad stereotype and that he didn't find it funny.
  18. ^ PWI Staff (2007). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated, May 2007". Arena Reports. Kappa Publishing. p. 134. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  19. ^ Gerweck, Steve. "7/21 OVW Results from Owensboro, KY (WWE Tag Team wins OVW Tag Team Titles)". Gerweck.net. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
  20. ^ a b "OVW Southern Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  21. ^ "OVW TV results". OVW Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  22. ^ "RAW results - July 30, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  23. ^ "RAW results - August 13, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  24. ^ "RAW results - August 30, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  25. ^ "Cryme Tyme Released". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-09-02.

External links

Bring back Cryme Tyme petition http://www.petitiononline.com/shadjtg/petition.html

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