The Street Profits have had a solid run in the WWE from NXT to the main roster, but over the last year they’ve hit a few snags that kept them from winning tag team gold.
Granted, most of those were when the Usos held the belts as part of the Bloodline, but it’s a shift that’s pretty regular in wrestling.
Booker T Wants the Street Profits to Ditch their Red Solo Cups and Bring the Pain
They were always hyped up and pleasant, but ready to fight at a moment’s notice. But that gimmick may have run its course and they’re in the process of adapting a new more serious and aggressive persona under the tutelage of Bobby Lashley.
It’s something we’ve seen from a few wrestlers in different companies as they’ve shrugged off their goofy, fun loving gimmicks and took on more serious ones and that helped propel their careers into the championship talks.
But the Street Profits are having trouble adjusting after Angelo Dawkins hesitated last week and Lashley threatened to drop them if they didn’t develop a killer instinct.
New angle
Booker T is a fan of the change as he talked about the need for the Street Profits to lose their red solo cup gimmick and learn to bring the pain.
“I’ve been telling Street Profits they need to turn into some dogs. Ditch the cup, all right? What’s in the damn cup? So that’s my thing, it’s time to start putting the Hurt Business on the map. It’s time to bring the pain if you’re gonna bring the pain, and quit messing around, you know, and jiving and messing around.”
Booker has a point and it makes sense. It’s fun to have a goofy gimmick when wrestlers can turn it up and win like Steve Austin and the Rock or when they’re faces, but the Street Profits look like they’re turning heel and it’ll only help them sell their turn even more.
Of course, they could stay faces since Lashley is adored by the fans, and rightly so, and it’ll add a new layer to them.
Making the change can also add more drama to them as Dawkins was the one that hesitated, and if Montez Ford is quicker to pick up on Lashley’s teachings we could see the team fracture.
We’d rather they stay together, but the WWE has a history of using the tag team division as a proving ground for singles stars and it’s been rumored for a while that Ford is expected to get a singles push.
What do you think? Should they go back to their cups or lose them? Let us know in the comments below.
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