SmackDown Star Reveals How He’s Changed After ‘Disrespect’

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SmackDown star Angelo Dawkins of the Street Profits has opened up about feeling disrespected within WWE while teaming with Montez Ford.

While Ford and Dawkins are a beloved tag-team, it has been speculated for years that the duo will ultimately split and pursue singles success.

Many fans have expressed interest in seeing the charismatic Montez Ford join WWE’s singles division, especially following Ford’s performance inside February’s Elimination Chamber match.

Speaking on the Masked Man Show, Dawkins explained how he has changed up his game, after feeling that he was disrespected:

“I got my brother’s back through and through. Low key, it’s not what they said about him, it’s what they said about me.

“Some of the things people say about me, I’m like, ‘Wait, I was just chilling in the background.’ I have no problem stepping off to the side and letting my boy shine.

“The talk about me was starting to get a little disrespectful and I was like, ‘Oh, these dudes really think….’ Montez even said it to me before, ‘This is fraudy.’ ‘We’re about to go show out then.

“They have a different Dawkins on their hands.’ Now, everybody is seeing that I’m doing things that I shouldn’t be able to do with my size.

“They would have been better off shutting up about me, and maybe we wouldn’t be getting this Dawkins. Now, I’m a different guy. I’m a little more woken up.

“Montez is like, ‘Bro, I know you have my back, but sometimes you have to show these boys to stop talking disrespectful on your name.’

“Tez and B (Bianca Belair) have done a great job of staying on me because I’m laid back and shy away from the spotlight because I never really felt like that was my strong suit.

“I like tag teams. I never consider myself in that realm, but the talk about me was starting to piss me off to the point where I was like, ‘Alright, bet. I didn’t even do anything, I was just supporting my brother, now everyone wants to call me this freaking scrub like I have no business being here.’

“Hold up. Now, we have to start putting respect on my name a little bit. They get on me about it, they call me too passive. Now, I’m about to come for what’s mine. That’s more of the respect side.

“If there is a singles opportunity where there is a championship on the line and I have to go out there and show off, I’m going to show off.

“Now, everyone knows I’m basically a hybrid. I can fly with the best and run through the biggest.” 

Dawkins last wrestled on the May 19 edition of SmackDown, teaming with Ford to defeat LA Knight & Rick Boogs.

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