The Pride (professional wrestling)

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The Pride
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The Pride (Bobby Lashley (left) and The Street Profits (right))
Stable
Leader(s) Bobby Lashley
Members Angelo Dawkins
Montez Ford
B-Fab
Name(s)The Pride
Billed heightsLashley: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Dawkins: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Ford: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
B-Fab: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Combined
billed weight		902 lb (409 kg)
DebutJuly 14, 2023
DisbandedAugust 16, 2024
Years active2023–2024

The Pride was a professional wrestling stable that performed in WWE. The stable consisted of leader Bobby Lashley, The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford), and B-Fab.

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History

On the July 14, 2023 show of SmackDown , a returning Lashley appeared in a backstage segment with The Street Profits to recruit them to form an alliance. [1] On the August 4 show of SmackDown, Lashley appeared to celebrate The Street Profits beating down Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson and The Brawling Brutes' Butch and Ridge Holland, turning all three men into heels. [2] [3] Lashley and The Street Profits teamed up for a match for the first time to face the Latino World Order (LWO) in a six-man tag team match at Fastlane. A day before the event on SmackDown, the trio took out the LWO's Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde to leave the LWO a man short for the match. At the event, a returning Carlito teamed up with Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar for the LWO to win the match. [4] [5] On the November 24 show of SmackDown, The Street Profits failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship from The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) after interference from Rhea Ripley, turning face once again. [6]

On the December 8 show of SmackDown, Lashley beat Karrion Kross to advance in the United States Championship #1 Contender Tournament. Lashley would face Santos Escobar in the second round of the tournament, but would lose due to an interference from Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo helping Santos to win the match and advance to the finals of the tournament. Lashley would turn face on next week's show of SmackDown: New Year's Revolution after being attacked by Karrion Kross and the returning Authors of Pain with the latter group forming The Final Testament team. [7] In January 2024 at Royal Rumble, Lashley entered the men's Royal Rumble match at number 11, eliminating Carlito and Kross before being eliminated by Kross, after which a brawl between both groups began. [8] Lashley then took part in the men's Elimination Chamber match at the titular event on February 24, but was eliminated by Drew McIntyre. [9] The Pride then faced off against The Final Testament in a Philadelphia street fight at WrestleMania XL on Night 2, in which they would emerge victorious. [10] On the April 19 episode of SmackDown Street Profits won a fatal-4 way tag team match to face A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson Waller) for the newly renamed WWE Tag Team Championship but they failed to win the titles 2 weeks later. [11] Lashley was inserted into the King of the Ring tournament but was later pulled out due to injury and was replaced by Dawkins. On the May 10 episode of SmackDown, Angelo Dawkins lost the first round qualifiers to The Bloodline's Tama Tonga. [12] On August 16, Lashley's profile on WWE's roster page was moved to the alumni section, ending his tenure with WWE and The Pride, and as a result, The Pride was disbanded as a stable, although The Street Profits continued to be managed by B-Fab, with no mention of The Pride as a stable. [13]

Members

LLeader
*Founding member(s)
MManager
MembersJoinedLeft
Bobby Lashley (L)July 14, 2023 *August 16, 2024
Angelo Dawkins July 14, 2023 *
Montez Ford July 14, 2023 *
B-Fab (M)February 2, 2024

Timeline

The Pride (professional wrestling)

Sub-groups

AffiliateMembersTenureType
The Street Profits Angelo Dawkins
Montez Ford 		2023–2024 Tag team

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