Cryme Tyme | |
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JTG (left) and Shad Gaspard (right) in 2009.
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Tag team | |
Members |
JTG/The Neighborhoodie Shad Gaspard |
Name(s) |
Crime Time Cryme Tyme The Gang Stars Shad Gaspard and The Neighborhoodie |
Heights | JTG: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Shad Gaspard: 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Combined weight |
517 lb (235 kg) |
Billed from | Brooklyn, New York |
Former member(s) |
Eve Torres (valet) Slam Master J |
Debut | October 16, 2006 |
Years active | 2006–2010, 2014–present |
Promotions |
JAPW OVW WOW WWE |
Trainer | Ohio Valley Wrestling |
Cryme Tyme is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of JTG and Shad Gaspard, better known for their tenure in WWE.
The team is an over-the-top parody of stereotypical .
Gaspard qualified for the finals of the reality television program Tough Enough 2 in 2002, but was disqualified and replaced after failing a physical. He was recruited by WWE talent scout Tom Prichard and trained with DeWayne Bruce for six months before debuting in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under the ring name Da Beast. He acted as part of the stable Bolin Services, acting as an enforcer.
JTG meanwhile had debuted as Just Too Good in OVW and after two matches, he was repackaged as The Neighborhoodie and subsequently placed into a tag team with Gaspard, who began performing under his real name. Collectively, their team was named "The Gang Stars". In OVW, they won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship by defeating Roadkill and Kasey James on May 24, 2006 in their first match as a team. After they won the championships, they entered into a feud with CM Punk who teamed up with Kane to defeat them and Simon Dean in a handicap match. Punk and Kane won a title match by disqualification, but they did not win the titles. They retained the titles in a gauntlet match, but later in the month lost the championships to Punk and Seth Skyfire on July 28. The following day, they lost a number one contendership match to The Untouchables (Dice Domino and Deuce Shade). The following year, the team returned to OVW, this time under the name "Cryme Tyme", and regained the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on July 21 from The James Boys (KC James and Kassidy James). They lost the titles back to them the following day.