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Montez Ford Feels TLC Match On 4/25 WWE SmackDown Is The Greatest TLC Match Of All Time

The Street Profits look back at what they described as ‘magic.’

The post-WrestleMania 41 edition of Friday Night SmackDown was headlined by a TLC match for the WWE Tag Team Championships.

Going into the match as champions were The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins), and joining them in the bout were #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) and Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin). The Street Profits emerged victorious, retaining the titles.

Dawkins and Ford reflected on that bout as they were being interviewed on the Battleground Podcast. The conversation about it stemmed from them being left off the WrestleMania 41 card. Ford feels it is the greatest TLC match of all time, and Dawkins added that magic was made that night.

Ford: “I think for us, it’s one of those situations where you say, okay, you’re not on WrestleMania but, you also look at it a positive way where now they have other WWE superstars who’ve never been a part of WrestleMania to showcase their talents. But, the thing about it is once that gets finished with — which it did — WrestleMania happened, it was great, it was a success, it was a two-night extravaganza and then we step up to the plate and show ‘em how it’s really done. So whether it’s WrestleMania, whether it’s SummerSlam, we are the PLE. The Street Profits are the PLE. We’re a walking PLE. Every time we go out there, it’s a main event performance so it could be Saturday Night’s Main Event, it could be WrestleMania, it could be SummerSlam, it could be the Royal Rumble. The Street Profits are the main act. So, that’s how we look at it, that’s how we took it and as you can see, we created arguably — I ain’t gonna say arguably — it was the greatest TLC match of all time. We had a lot of chips on our shoulder. Listen, we went out there and showed them, this is what happens when you have to pretty much go before The Street Profits. We seen the pressure, we seen all the great matches at WrestleMania. Shoutouts to my beautiful bride, my wife, who (had) probably the greatest Triple Threat match at WrestleMania. But, after that happened, we said, ‘Alright, man, let’s show ‘em how it’s really done, let’s show ‘em how the big boys really play.'”

Dawkins: “Took that TLC personal… That was one of the funnest nights ever right there. Magic was made that night. I’m pretty sure me, myself — I can’t speak for the other tag teams but I feel like we all left with our heads held high and we put on a clinic, we put on a show. We had a crazy chip on our shoulder that day. Obviously, because of being left off of ‘Mania so that played a part in it. But, man, I’ve watched it a couple times… The magic that was made. The spots. Everybody had crazy spots. He had a prosthetic leg which was dope, and then I jumped off a ladder through a table so, yeah, that was a lot of fun to watch.”

Dawkins and Ford’s reign as WWE Tag Team Champions came to an end on the 7/11 Friday Night SmackDown. The duo lost the belts to The Wyatt Sicks’ Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy. The Street Profits’ reign clocked out at 119 days.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit the Battleground Podcast with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.

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