As Ford and Dawkins continue to make strides with WWE’s tag team division, recent months have seen them join forces with the likes of Bobby Lashley and B-Fab. Collectively, the quartet is known as The Pride. When asked about the transition to working with The Pride, Ford noted that it felt like a full circle opportunity. 

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“[The Street Profits] is the one thing I’ve done the entire time I’ve been in the WWE, so being transitioned to be with someone like Bobby is so cool. It’s like full circle for me because … when I was watching WWE coming up in middle school and high school, I was watching Bobby Lashley. I was watching his matches with John Cena and him competing for the United States Championship at the time. Then seeing how we had similar backgrounds from coming from the [military] service and then doing WWE. So he was always some someone I watched, idolized, and tried to take after. So now for us being now associated, part of that, it’s like a full circle for me.”

Since forming The Pride last summer, Lashley, Ford, and Dawkins have primarily been pitted against another recently-birthed group – The Final Testament, which is composed of Karrion Kross, Scarlett, The Authors of Pain, and Paul Ellering. These teams last faced off on night two of WrestleMania 40, when Lashley, Ford, and Dawkins defeated Kross and The Authors of Pain in a Philadelphia Street Fight.

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