Shad Gaspard

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Shad Gaspard
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Ring name(s) Head Nigga in Charge (H.N.I.C.)[1]
Da/The Beast[2]
Shad Gaspard[2]
Billed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)[3]
Billed weight 285 lb (129 kg)[3]
Born January 13, 1981 (1981-01-13) (age 27)
Brooklyn, New York[2]
Resides Brooklyn, New York[4]Louisville, Kentucky[4]
Atlanta, Georgia[4]
Billed from Brooklyn, New York
Trained by OVW Staff[2]
Debut 2004[2]

Shad Chad Javier Jesus Roman Chittick Gaspard[4] (born January 13, 1981)[4] is an American professional wrestler of Haitian and Curaçaon descent.[4] Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he and his partner JTG are wrestling on its Raw brand as the tag team, Cryme Tyme.[3]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and career

Shad is the son of Benjamin Gaspard, a former street enforcer for street gangs and personal security guard in the early 1970s, who now owns Mcfay Contracting Inc. Shad is the third of six siblings.[4]

At five years old Shad’s father began training him in boxing, and at age eight, he began training in a mixture of different martial arts.[4] As a student, Shad loved to fight and quickly developed into an aggressive fighter, winning many fights as an amateur.[4] His mother gave him the nickname “Beast” as a result of his aggressiveness.[4] At the age of sixteen, Shad began prize fighting for promoter “Hardbody Harrison”,[4] a former World Championship Wrestling wrestler and FX Tough Man Champion, in bar fighting tournaments such as Boxing, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and tough man competitions.[4] Even though Shad was only sixteen years old, he competed against adults who were older than him by five to twenty years.[4] Gaspard holds won-loss records as a No Holds Barred fighter (35-7) and an amateur boxer (57-26).[4]

Gaspard was extensively involved in athletics during his high school years, specializing in wrestling, track, and basketball.[4] After high school, he continued to play basketball at Georgia Perimeter College,[4] and after leaving, he became a bodyguard for several rappers and actors, including Puff Daddy, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Mike Tyson.[4]

Though the Cryme Tyme gimmick was mostly parody, Gaspard has been arrested numerous times, including arrests for assault in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, and California; looting and robbery in New York and Georgia; and drug-trafficking in Atlanta.[4]

Gaspard then decided to become a professional wrestler. He qualified for the finals of the reality television program Tough Enough 2 in 2002, but was disqualified and replaced after failing a physical.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment (2003–2007)

[edit] Ohio Valley Wrestling

After Tough Enough, Gaspard was recruited by WWF talent scout Tom Prichard and allowed to attempt a career as a professional wrestler. He first trained with Sgt. Dwayne Bruce from WCW Power Plant for six months.[5] Afterwards, he attended Prichard's first Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) "training camp", after which he was offered an opportunity to return to train full time.

Gaspard debuted in OVW in 2003 under the ring name Da Beast,[6] eventually joining Kenny Bolin's Bolin Services stable. Originally, he acted as Bolin's personal enforcer, until he was placed into a tag team with Carlos Colón in February 2004.

After Colón left OVW in October 2004, Gaspard left Bolin Services and formed several short lived tag team with Osama,[2] Mike Mondo,[2] Ken Doane,[2] and Ryan Wilson,[2] before he began wrestling under his real name as a singles wrestler. In June 2005, he was signed to a developmental contract by World Wrestling Entertainment.

[edit] RAW

In early 2006, during his feud in OVW with CM Punk Gaspard was joined by the Neighborhoodie and formed a new tag team.[7] The new team won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship once,[8] before they were called up to the WWE Raw brand roster as Cryme Tyme. On September 4, 2006, a series of vignettes began airing on Raw, hyping the debut of Cryme Tyme.[2] On the October 16 edition of Raw, Cryme Tyme debuted and defeated then-World Tag Team Champions, the Spirit Squad (Mikey & Johnny) in a non-title match.[9]

In November 2006, at Cyber Sunday, Cryme Tyme defeated Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, Charlie Haas and Viscera and The Highlanders in a Texas Tornado match (as voted by the fans).[2] A few months later at the New Year's Revolution pay-per-view, Cryme Tyme won a Tag Team Turmoil Match against The Highlanders, The World's Greatest Tag Team, Cade and Murdoch, and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Super Crazy, earning them a shot at the World Tag Team Championships.[2] Later that year, at WrestleMania 23, Cryme Tyme made a cameo appearance and started a dance party with Eugene and some WWE Legends in the backstage area.[2] In June 2007, on an episode of SmackDown!, Deuce 'N Domino (with Cherry) defeated Cryme Tyme in an inter-brand match tag match. While Deuce, Domino & Cherry celebrated their victory, Cryme Tyme appeared on the titantron and kayfabe stole their car, taking it to Brisco Brothers Auto Shop to sell it for parts chanting "Money, money, yeah, yeah".[2] The next month, on July 22, 2007, The James Boys defeated Cryme Tyme to win back the OVW Southern Tag Team titles.[2] On August 13 Cryme Tyme returned to their hometown of New York City on an episode of Raw from Madison Square Garden, losing to then-World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch in a non-title match by disqualification when Shad used a chair on Murdoch. On the August 27 edition of Raw, Cryme Tyme stole Murdoch's hat and gave it away to a fan. In the middle of the feud with Cade and Murdoch, on September 2, 2007, Gaspard (along with JTG) was released from his World Wrestling Entertainment contract for undisclosed reasons, but not for reasons connected to the WWE Wellness program.[2][10] After his release, he performed on the independent circuit,[11] and returned to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) appearing at their show on January 16, 2008.[citation needed]

[edit] Return to WWE (2008–present)

Shad and JTG returned to WWE on the March 31, 2008 edition of Raw, as Cryme Tyme where they defeated Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in their first televised WWE match in nearly 6 months.[12]

[edit] In wrestling

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Shad "Beast" Gaspard THE HNIC (video). You Tube. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p OWOW. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
  3. ^ a b c Superstars > Raw > Shad > Profile. WWE.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Shad Gaspard's MySpace page. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
  5. ^ WWA4. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
  6. ^ Ohio Valley Wrestling results - 2003. Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved on 2007-08-13. “August 1, 2003 [...]The Beast b Rob Begley”
  7. ^ OVW results for 2006. Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved on 2007-04-06. “February 1 - Club Life b The Neighborhoodies in the amateur showcase dark match with dual 450 splashes.”
  8. ^ a b OVW Southern Tag Team Title. Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  9. ^ Zack Zeigler (October 16, 2006). Let the voting begin. WWE. Retrieved on 2008-01-03.
  10. ^ Cryme Tyme released. WWE.
  11. ^ 10th Anniversary Show. JAPW (October 27, 2007). Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
  12. ^ WWE Raw 31 March, 2008 Results. Pro-Wrestling Edge. Retrieved on 2008-04-06.

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