Team Pacman | |
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R-Truth and Xavier Woods in January 2014.
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Tag team | |
Members |
Ron Killings/R-Truth Rasheed Lucius Creed/Xavier Woods Adam Jones |
Name(s) | Team Pacman Truth and Consequences R-Truth and Xavier Woods |
Heights | Adam: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Truth: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Woods: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Combined weight |
680 lb (310 kg) |
Debut | August 2007 |
Disbanded | June 2014 |
Years active | 2007, 2013-2014 |
Promotions |
TNA WWE |
Team Pacman was a professional wrestling tag team formerly in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. The team, consisting of National Football League player Adam Jones and Ron Killings, held the promotion's World Tag Team Championship once, but when Jones' football team refused him permission to perform in the ring, Rasheed Lucius Creed was added as a third man for the team's title defense. Killings and Creed reunited in WWE under the ring names of R-Truth and Xavier Woods.
On August 6, 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) confirmed through their website that they had signed a deal with Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones. In interviews with TNA Vice President Jeff Jarrett, Jones indicated that he intended to wrestle, primarily as part of a tag team. In response the Tennessee Titans organization were granted a restraining order barring him from working with the company at all, prompting the two companies to negotiate a compromise stating that Jones wouldn't be allowed to "touch or be touched, use or be hit by any object or anything else that could injure him", but he would be allowed to appear with the company in a non-physical role.
Jones made his first appearance at Hard Justice later that month, taking part in an interview with Mike Tenay explaining that he chose professional wrestling to prove that he could be "the ultimate team player", and TNA specifically because both he and it were "trend setters". They were interrupted, however, by Ron Killings who proceeded to run down and "threaten" Jones until Jones challenged him to enter the ring and fight, only to be kept separated by (kayfabe) security guards. In later backstage segments Jones was shown laid out and bleeding, then being taken away in an ambulance. At the next weeks Impact!, Jones challenged Killings, only to have him appear and profess respect for him—even suggesting forming a team to vie for the World Tag Team Championship. Accepting, the newly minted "Team Pacman" spent the lead up to No Surrender attacking wrestlers and spray painting "autographs" reading "PAC" on their backs. At the show, Team Pacman took the TNA World Tag Team Championship from the champions, Kurt Angle and Sting, with Jones making the actual pin, though he was not otherwise physically involved in the match—refusing to tag in at times and literally running away at others.