About Me
Shad Gaspard & The Neighborhoodie (JTG) first began teaming in the summer of 2006 in Ohio Valley Wrestling. They originally simply went under their ring names before adopting the team name "The Gang Stars".In August World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) trademarked the name "Cryme Tyme" and promoted JTG and Gaspard to the RAW brand, having them work house shows and dark matches. On the September 4th edition of RAW vignettes began airing to hype the debut of the team, now officially dubbed Cryme Tyme, as "training" for their upcoming debut on the show.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.The vignettes, which aired weekly, featured Cryme Tyme robbing people while an (overly and stereotypically uncool "classic white man" sounding) announcer dubbed their actions "training exercises" designed to work on things like "speed", "agility", "drive", "endurance", and "intensity".Cryme Tyme wrestled as faces in their house show and dark matches and made their television debut as such on the October 16, 2006 edition of RAW with a win over Johnny and Mikey of the Spirit Squad.After arriving on RAW they began covertly stealing things -- such as Jerry Lawler's laptop, and a plasma screen TV -- during interviews and while celebrating wins with the commentary team.On November 5, 2006, Cryme Tyme 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 match.On the November 27th edition of RAW, they were featured in a segment that parodied Michael Richards's Laugh Factory incident. In the skit, the man playing as Richards basically recreated the scene of the incident by using the same racial slurs and insults until Cryme Tyme came to confront him. Nervous, he offered an apology, but Gaspard kicked him in the head. JTG then made a Seinfeld like joke, saying "What's the deal with the Bloods and the Crips? Can't they all just get along?". This event was reported by quite a few media outlets and was the beginning of a series of vignettes and skits featuring Cryme Tyme interacting with different, unexpected, audiences.
