Access Granted: Cryme Tyme
Published by Marcus Vanderberg on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 7:12 pm.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, YO!
One of the hottest tag teams in World Wrestling Entertainment the last couple of months have been Cryme Tyme.
Shad and JTG have been wrestling in the WWE since their debut in 2006 and quickly moved up the ranks as one of the most popular tag teams within the WWE Univerise.
This Sunday at Summerslam (Live on PPV at 8:00PM EST/5:oo PM PST), Shad and JTG will compete for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship when they square off against Chris Jericho and The Big Show.
Cryme Tyme took time out before the biggest match in their young career to chat with BET.com about life on the road, Twitter Nation and the additions of Slam Master J and Eve Torres.
Word up.
On how they came up with the Cryme Tyme gimmick:
Shad: Cryme Tyme really isn’t a gimmick. It’s just me and JTG having out there. A lot of people might think just because we wear Timberlands and jeans that we are a gimmick. I wear Timberlands and jeans when I’m walking around the house and going out chillin.
JTG: We are actually ourselves with the volume turned really up.
On how they met in Ohio Valley Wrestling:
Shad: I was already down there training and JTG was riding a Greyhound bus from New York City to Louisville, Kentucky every weekend for his training. Once he was full time, we had a good chemistry so we started tagging together. It turned into what it is right now.
JTG: Vince saw it. Loved it. Put it on TV. That’s how we make it work.
On a typical day when they have a TV taping:
Shad: Normally we wake up at 9:00AM after driving two hours from the previous show. We go to the gym, work out for maybe an hour and a half to two hours depending on how tire we are or not. Go back to the hotel, shower up, make sure we are fresh and clean and then we come to the arena around 1:00PM. We talk to our agent to go over any matches we have and just prepare for the show. Its really more a mental thing than it is a physical thing when getting ready for a show. Read the rest of this entry »
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