A big title change happened when WWE held a TV taping for NXT on Thursday night in Winter Park, FL at Full Sail University. 

In the main event of the tapings, The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish) defeated The Street Profits (Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins) to win the NXT Tag Team Titles. 

This match is likely to air on the September 11th episode of NXT on WWE’s streaming service, WWE Network. 

• Full Results from Thursday’s NXT TV Tapings (Spoilers)

As a result of The Street Profits dropping the titles, it appears that their time in WWE’s developmental system is over as they head to the main roster full-time. 

These two teams faced off at the WWE NXT TakeOver: Toronto II event in Toronto, Ontario at the Scotiabank Arena over the weekend. Many fans had thought the title change would’ve happened earlier.

There was speculation that The Street Profits would drop the straps at this show due to them being called up to the main roster on RAW. That wasn’t the case as The Street Profits retained their titles only to lose them a few days later.

The Street Profits became champions when they beat The Forgotten Sons, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch, and O’Reilly & Fish to win the titles in a Fatal 4-Way Ladder Match at the WWE NXT TakeOver: XXV event.

There are not new WWE NXT Tag Team Champions as The Street Profits retained over The Undisputed Era.

Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish were not able to make it back on top of the NXT Tag Team Division as they lost to Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins. The Street Profits retained at the WWE NXT TakeOver: Toronto II event in Toronto, Ontario at the Scotiabank Arena.

• NXT TakeOver: Toronto II Results & Live Coverage

The reign of The Street Profits as champions hasn’t lasted that long as they won the titles at the WWE NXT TakeOver: XXV event in Bridgeport, CT at the Webster Bank Arena back in June. 

They became champions when they beat The Forgotten Sons, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch, and Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish to win the titles in a Fatal 4-Way Ladder Match.

At the time, the titles were vacant by The Viking Raiders, who were the champions, as they were called up to the main roster during the Superstar Shake-Up and placed on the Monday Night RAW roster.

There was speculation that The Street Profits may have to drop the straps due to them being called up to the main roster on RAW but that’s not the case.

What are your thoughts on The Street Profits retaining the NXT Tag Team Titles? Was this the right call by WWE officials? Sound off in the comment section.

The current NXT Tag Team Champions The Street Profits have been making regular appearances on Raw in recent weeks and getting over with their segments. Their appearances has led to people wondering if the two could be close to making their in-ring debut on the main roster too.

However, the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Newsletter provides some update on the NXT Tag Team’s future and it reveals that while things can change, WWE currently has no plans for Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford to be involved in anything but backstage segments on Raw.

The Newsletter also noted that the duo wearing their NXT tag team title belts for their segments is considered to be an advertisement for the development territory. The idea behind it is that if you like seeing the two on Raw and want to watch more of them then you can do so in NXT on WWE Network.

The Street Profits made their first Raw appearance during the July 1st episode of the show and they have been making regular appearances on the show ever since. Though their segments have been used to promote future events and enhance current storylines and the duo is not considered to have officially been called up to the main roster.

Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford are currently scheduled to defend their NXT tag titles against Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish at the upcoming NXT: Takeover: Toronto II event on August 10 during the SummerSlam weekend.

The NXT Tag Team Championships will be on the line at NXT TakeOver: Toronto II on August 10th. Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins will look to defend the belts against former champions Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish from the Undisputed Era.

It will be the 3rd title defense for the current champions, who won the vacant titles on June 1st in a 4-way ladder match at NXT TakeOver: XXV. The other three teams in the ladder match were the Forgotten Sons, Fish & O’Reilly, and Burch & Lorcan. The titles had been vacated by the Viking Raiders upon their call-up to the main roster.

Since winning the belts, the Street Profits have defended them successfully against the Forgotten Sons and Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch.

Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins (The Street Profits) (c) vs Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish (The Undisputed Era)

The ladder match at TakeOver: XXV was the first time the Street Profits and Fish & O’Reilly have been in the same match on WWE programming. They’ve met another 19x on NXT live events, however. O’Reilly and Fish hold the edge in the series between the two teams with a 15W-5L record.

The only other confirmed match for the August 10th event is a best 2-of-3 falls match between Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole for the NXT Championship.

• Oney Lorcan Reveals Vince McMahon Once Banned Him From WWE

Monday’s episode of WWE RAW is building to be an interesting show. While the company has announced two big main events, there are some notable names currently backstage at the TV event that haven’t been advertised. 

Bray Wyatt and NXT Tag Team Champions The Street Profits are all reportedly backstage. As of this writing, there’s no word yet on if these stars will appear on the show.

Wyatt has been backstage at several recent WWE shows, but has yet to appeared on-camera. His last in-person WWE television appearance took place a year ago.

Of course, Wyatt’s latest WWE television appearances have been on the eerie Fire Fly Funhouse, which concluded last month. Ahead of Bray Wyatt’s official return, we’ve seen characters from the Firefly Funhouse at random times backstage.

Regarding the Street Profits, NXT’s reigning tag team champions made their main roster debut last week on RAW in backstage segments but did not appear in front of the crowd.

• WWE Accidentally Mentions AEW While Hyping the Street Profits’ RAW Debut

WWE holds this show in Newark, NJ at the Prudential Arena and will be the go-home show for Extreme Rules for the RAW roster. The company is loading up this show as two matches have already been announced.

Someone in WWE’s social media department made an error in the caption of a photo that was posted on their official Instagram account. 

WWE posted a photo of NXT Tag Team Champions The Street Profits while backstage at Monday’s RAW TV event. The team cut a promo on the show introducing themselves to the WWE Universe.

WWE’s Instagram covered the debut, but inadvertently mentioned rival upstars promotion All Elite Wrestling. Instead of writing the NXT tag team champions are on Raw, the caption read, “The NXT Tag Team Champions AEW at Raw!”

You can see the screenshot of the typo below.

AEW star Nick Jackson of the Young Bucks tweeted the following shortly after the typo:

The Street Profits

At the WWE NXT TakeOver: XXV event in Bridgeport, CT at the Webster Bank Arena, Street Profits beat The Forgotten Sons, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch, and Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish to win the NXT Tag Team Titles in a Fatal 4-Way Ladder Match.

Last week there was some talk among fans about EVOLVE Wrestling celebrating their 10th Anniversary by holding a show on July 13th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA. WWE’s streaming service, WWE Network, will air the event at 8 PM ET that night. 

It turns out that AEW holds their Fight for the Fallen event on the same night at the same time from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Street Profits are enjoying a run of success in WWE’s black-and-gold brand, NXT, with the two recently becoming NXT Tag Team Championships.

In an interview what the Not Sam Wrestling Podcast, one-half of the team, Montez Ford, reflected on how the team originally came together.

Rising Profits

“The whole Street Profits act, it’s crazy how it started,” Ford said. “[…] At the time, a couple of people came to us with the idea of us being a tag team. We started tagging in the Florida shows and just trying to get a groove of: ‘What do we want to present to the world?’ We already know who we are, but it is just a process of putting me and Dawkins together and who we are as people and trying to translate it into professional wrestling.”

He continued, “I think the art of NXT is putting your personalities through what we do in the ring. Just putting the personalities on board and trying to understand what we are trying to bring into the world. Once we had the tapings, a couple of ideas of putting us together and we ended up meshing together.”

Ford admitted that “Everything that has been put together as far as Street Profits is Dawkins and I just bouncing ideas off of each other and doing things while we are out there.”

The Street Profits claimed the NXT Tag Team Championships during a Four-Way Ladder Match at NXT TakeOver XXV. They defeated Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, The Undisputed Era’s Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish, and Wesley Blake and Steve Cutler of The Forgotten Sons.

H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.

Update On Injury Of Bobby Lashley

We noted before how Raw Star Bobby Lashley was working hurt but at the time there weren’t any details available about the type of injury he is dealing with.

Now the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Newsletter has revealed that Lashley has actually been dealing with a separated shoulder but still trying to work through the pain.

No word yet on if the injury will cause Bobby to take time off in future but it appears that the former Impact Star will continue to work as long as he can.

NXT Tag Team To Challenge For Indie Title?

EVOLVE Tag Team Champions Chris Dickinson & Jaka recently posted a video where they issued an open challenge to any tag team in the world to come and challenge them for their title at Sunday’s EVOLVE 114 event in Ybor City, Florida.

Interestingly, Angelo Dawkins who is one-half of the NXT Tag Team Street Profits made the following tweet indicating that they may appear at the show to answer this challenge:

We are waiting @WWNEVOLVE or is #DoomPatrol blowing smoke? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/mWM4brCd2A

— Angelo Dawkins (@AngeloDawkins) October 25, 2018

It’s well known that WWE and EVOLVE have a working relationship. Many NXT stars have previously made appearances for the promotion. So it wouldn’t be a big surprise if the duo actually shows up at the upcoming event.

WWE NXT tag team The Street Profits, Angleo Dawkins and Montez Ford, recently spoke to the The Miami Herald. Dawkins and Ford explained during the interview where their “Street Profits” name originated from, and how they feel they’re helping WWE advance:

Dawkins:

“That was definitely us. We were like, ‘Yo, what would be hot right now? What should we name ourselves?’

“We went down the list, and as soon as we both said Street Profits, we were like, ‘Oh man. That gotta nice little ring to it.'”

Ford:

“We’re profits – we’re advancing in life, we’re advancing the tag team division, we’re advancing the goal.

“We’re advancing the skill, we’re advancing the style, we’re advancing everything. The profit is an advance, and that’s what we do.”

Dawkins and Ford also discuss how they formed as a team and their experiences with fans at live events. Read the full interview by clicking here.