This event was the beginning of a series of vignettes and skits featuring Cryme Tyme interacting with different, unexpected audiences.Īround the same time they began a feud with The World's Greatest Tag Team ( Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas), during which Benjamin began to express disgust with Cryme Tyme's antics, calling them offensive and harmful to the black community. Nervous, he offered an apology, but Gaspard kicked him in the head and JTG made a Seinfeld-esque joke, saying "What's the deal with the Bloods and the Crips? Can't they all just get along?". In the skit, a wrestler ( Nick Berk)-acting as a stand in for Richards-recreated the scene of the incident by using racial slurs and insults until Cryme Tyme confronted him on stage. Later that same month they were featured in a Raw segment that parodied Michael Richards's " Laugh Factory incident". On November 5, the team made their pay-per-view debut at Cyber Sunday, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, The Highlanders (Rory and Robbie McAllister), and Charlie Haas and Viscera in a four team tornado tag team match. Cryme Tyme wrestled as fan favorites at live events and in dark matches, finally making their television debut, defeating Johnny and Mikey of the Spirit Squad on the October 16 episode of Raw.Īfter arriving on Raw they were depicted covertly stealing things-such as Jerry Lawler's laptop, and a plasma screen TV-during interviews and while celebrating wins with the announce team. The vignettes, which aired weekly, featured Cryme Tyme robbing people while an (overly and stereotypically uncool sounding) announcer dubbed their actions "training exercises" designed to work on things like " speed", " agility", " drive", " endurance", and " intensity". On the September 4 episode of Raw, vignettes began airing to promote the debut of the team, now dubbed Cryme Tyme, showing them "training" for their pending debut on the show. In late 2006, WWE promoted The Gang Stars to the main Raw brand roster, starting by having them work live events and dark matches.
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