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Montez Ford

Ford debuted for WWE's NXT brand in 2015 during a September 26 house show, in a twenty-man battle royal to determine the number one contender for the NXT Championship.

While in NXT, Ford first teamed with Angelo Dawkins as early as the January 27, 2016 house show, where they wrestled in a tag match won by The Hype Bros (Mojo Rawley and Zack Ryder). They received their first title match on February 25, 2017, challenging the The Authors of Pain (Akam and Rezar) for the NXT Tag Team Championships, but did not succeed in winning the titles. During the July 12 edition of NXT, Ford and Dawkins debuted officially as the Street Profits in a tag match. On January 17, 2018, The Street Profits suffered their first loss to The Authors of Pain, failing to earn a NXT Tag Team Championship match at NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia. 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.

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 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, they won the NXT Tag Team Championship for the first time. On the July 10 episode of NXT, the 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 Championships to O'Reilly and Fish.

Starting on July 1, 2019, The Street Profits started appearing on Raw doing various backstage segments. 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 ten-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.

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 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, 2021 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 four-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, 2022, they challenged RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) for the Raw Tag Team Championships in a losing effort. At the Royal Rumble, Ford and Dawkins entered the Royal Rumble match at number six and number ten, respectively, but would both go on to lose. On the second night of WrestleMania 38 on April 3, they once again failed to win the titles in a triple threat match also involving Alpha Academy (Chad Gable and Otis). At Money in the Bank on July 2, The Street Profits failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships from The Usos, as well as in a rematch at SummerSlam on July 30 with Jeff Jarrett as the special guest referee. At Clash at the Castle on September 3, The Street Profits teamed with Madcap Moss to defeat Alpha Academy and Austin Theory during the pre-show.

At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 28, 2023, The Street Profits entered the men's Royal Rumble match with Dawkins entering at number eleven and Ford at number twenty-three, but were unsuccessful as Dawkins was eliminated by Brock Lesnar, while Ford was eliminated by Damian Priest. On the February 6 episode of Raw, Ford defeated Elias to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match for the United States Championship, while Dawkins lost to Damian Priest in another qualifying match. At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Ford failed to win the title. On Night One of WrestleMania 39, The Street Profits won the men's WrestleMania Showcase fatal four-way tag team match.

As part of the 2023 draft, the Street Profits were drafted to the SmackDown brand. After weeks of segments between The Street Profits and Bobby Lashley, on the August 4 episode of SmackDown, The Street Profits interrupted a tag team match between Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows and The Brawling Brutes' Ridge Holland and Butch by taking out the participants in the match, thus turning heel for the first time on the main roster. The Street Profits then stood on the ramp with the returning Lashley to celebrate the beatdown. Lashley and The Street Profits teamed up for a match for the first time to face the Latino World Order (LWO) in a six-man tag team match at Fastlane. The night before the event on SmackDown, the trio took out the LWO's Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde, leaving the LWO a man short for the match. At the event, a returning Carlito teamed up with Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar for the LWO to win the match. On the November 24 episode of SmackDown, The Street Profits failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships from The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) after interference from Rhea Ripley.

On April 7, 2024, The Street Profits and Bobby Lashley, now known as The Pride, would face off against The Final Testament (Karrion Kross, Akam and Rezar) at WrestleMania XL night two in a Philadelphia street fight, where they would win the match after assistance from special guest referee Bubba Ray Dudley. On the April 19 episode of SmackDown, the Street Profits won a fatal-four way tag team match to face A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) for the newly renamed WWE Tag Team Championship, but they failed to win the titles two weeks later. Lashley was inserted into the 2024 King of the Ring tournament, but was later pulled due to injury and was replaced by Dawkins. On the May 10 episode of SmackDown, Dawkins lost in the first round to Tama Tonga. On August 16, The Pride quietly disbanded due to Lashley leaving WWE, although the Street Profits and B-Fab would continue their alliance without any mention of The Pride as a stable. On the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Street Profits challenged Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) for the WWE Tag Team Championships, but the match ended in a no contest after Tommaso Ciampa attacked both teams. After Ciampa left the ring, Dawkins punched Shelley after the latter tried to help him up, hinting at a heel turn for the Street Profits.

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