WWE Star ‘On The Verge’ Of Splitting From Tag Team

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In a recent interview, Bianca Belair suggested that Montez Ford has gone back and forth over the idea of a singles run in WWE.

Speaking about Ford’s mindset about a split from Angelo Dawkins, Belair suggested that Ford feels “he’s ready and then he feels guilty“.

Ford went on to address the suggestion in a recent interview with the Daily Star, saying:

“Well I think what she (Bianca Belair) was saying or speaking on was when I first came in, came, got signed to NXT or developmental around 2015 and my first match was around 2016 and literally right after that, they put me and Dawks together at the end of 2016 and we debuted in 2017 on NXT TV so this has been the only thing I have done since I’ve been with the company; The Street Profits.

“I haven’t done anything else. I haven’t done singles stuff, I haven’t done solo stuff and I think what she means is that it’s kind of similar to survivor’s guilt. Been with this person for so long and we built so much, so for me to take off and just do things on my own, it kind of feels like I’m leaving him behind.

But, I realized recently, that’s not my fault, and that’s not a knock to him, that’s not a knock to anybody but, I know how talented I am, I know how much I’ve brought to the table for The Street Profits and I know how much I’ve input into The Street Profits to make it what it is today.

“If I decide to go my way and it’s not with The Street Profits, then whatever happens after that, either is successful or it fails, that’s not on me. Because, me is on me and I think that’s why she said that because like I said, we have such a close-knit relationship and been together for so long and she knows not only just how much I care about him but The Street Profits as a whole but, I’ve been ready ever since I started watching this and I’m not gonna say when the opportunity comes, because you can’t necessarily say when opportunity comes because opportunities are opportunities.

“You know how this place works. But, I will say that when that day happens…”

“I would say (I know it’s time to go solo) when everything I’m doing now isn’t working. Feel like I’m on the cusp and the verge of that right now. Like I said, we’ve been together since late 2016, early 2017. We won the EVOLVE, NXT, Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships but right after we lost the SmackDown Tag Team Championships, we haven’t had no success since then. Been the same tag team, we’ve been doing the same things. Have the same passion, actually upped my training to be in the best shape of my life and still no success so now all these questions are popping up in my head like, what I need to get rid of? What I need to add? What do I need to subtract? What am I doing wrong? What do I need to change?

“And that’s where I’m at now, because I’m not old, but I’m also not young either and these are all the things that are going through my head right now where I’m so fixated on anything in life that I put so much work into it. I don’t see results, I shift. Because insanity is doing the same thing and expecting results. I’m not insane. I’m crazy, but I ain’t insane. So I think that’s the main thing.

“Right now, just looking at where do I need to be at? And where I need to go and getting rid of the excess fat that is hindering me from being the person I know I can be which is a World Heavyweight Champion, which is a World Champion. I know that, I can say that. Now, there’s no doubt, there’s no unconfidence in that. I know that I’m a World Champion, I’m a World Champion, I know I’m World Heavyweight Champion-material and nobody can take that away from me.

“But, that time is when I feel — and like I said, it could be on the cusp of that right now. But my frustration has reached its fulfillment or I feel like I’ve closed this chapter where I feel like there’s nothing else to do in this chapter because I’ve tried for every single thing for this to continue to be successful. That’ll be time. Essentially, it’s like how Derek Jeter — I remember I went to an event and he was explaining why when he quit baseball — and I’m not saying I’m quitting wrestling. I’m talking shifting from The Street Profits — and he said, ‘When I literally gave it my all… When I gave it my complete all and there’s nothing else I can give to it, that’s when it’s time to leave’ and that’s how I feel too.

The Street Profits debuted on WWE NXT in August 2017 facing The Metro Brothers, as can be seen below this news story.

They would go on to be NXT Tag Team Champions and receive a main roster call-up in the 2019 WWE Draft going on to hold tag team championship gold on Raw & SmackDown.

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