Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins of the Street Profits have found a lot of success in WWE, but have done so years ago to the point where fans and now publicly at least one half of the tag team are showing frustration with how the team is booked.
The Street Profits were pushed strongly years ago in NXT and the main roster, but it has been nearly four years since the tag team have held gold. Over the last year, they had been paired with Bobby Lashley only to break away from him months ago as he has since left the company.
While speaking with Daily Mail, Ford expressed that while he’s working his dream job, he still feels frustrated with the booking at times.
“For me to sit here and go like, how’s it going, that it’s good, that’d be a lie,” Ford said. “There’s always pleasure in doing what you love, what you admire, what you have dreamt of, what you have goals in and passion for, but it does get to that sense of frustration where anything you try to accomplish in life, where you may feel like it’s either taking too long, or it’s been too long, or nothing’s happening.”
“I’m not going to lie and say I don’t sit here and watch all the comments and everything. I watch everything. We’re not in conversations when it comes to top tag teams. We’re not in conversations when it comes to anything wrestling-related besides the fact of getting handled by The Bloodline, and that doesn’t sit well with me. So as well as is it is going in terms of being my dream job, it is enjoying as it is frustrating.”
Ford noted that they try to make the best of whatever creative opportunities are presented to them. A case in point was the alliance with Lashley, as they felt it was a new chapter for them.
“All these things are running, we have a WrestleMania win, and then boom, it just stops. And it’s been this constant stop and go and stop and go and stop and go with the Profits where we’ll get momentum and then the momentum will stop, then momentum will start again, and the momentum will stop. And for us, that’s frustrating, because it’s hard to get behind a team whose momentum starts and then it shifts again.”
Ford closed by noting that it might be time for a new era for him and get rid of people, or it could be a change in mindset. For years, there have been people in WWE pushing for Ford to be a singles star, while Ford has stayed loyal to Dawkins and stuck it out as a tag team.
