Montez Ford voices frustration over The Street Profits’ ‘stop-and-go’ momentum

Montez Ford believes he may need to make some changes in order to accomplish his goal of becoming WWE Champion.

Ford recently spoke to The Daily Mail about how his “dream job” in WWE can be frustrating. As he has also mentioned in previous interviews, Ford is growing impatient with The Street Profits’ lack of success of late.

“For me to sit here and go like, how’s it going, that it’s good, that’d be a lie,” Ford said. “There’s always pleasure in doing what you love, what you admire, what you have dreamt of, what you have goals in and passion for, but it does get to that sense of frustration where anything you try to accomplish in life, where you may feel like it’s either taking too long, or it’s been too long, or nothing’s happening.”

“I’m not going to lie and say I don’t sit here and watch all the comments and everything. I watch everything. We’re not in conversations when it comes to top tag teams. We’re not in conversations when it comes to anything wrestling-related besides the fact of getting handled by The Bloodline, and that doesn’t sit well with me. So as well as is it is going in terms of being my dream job, it is enjoying as it is frustrating.”

The Street Profits were paired with B-Fab and Bobby Lashley as The Pride in 2023. The group was quietly disbanded when Lashley left the company earlier this year. Ford says the experience taught him that anything can happen; anyone can leave, and you have to pick up the pieces afterward.

“I’m glad with what we had for the short period of time, B-Fab and the All Mighty when he was here. But what I took from that lesson is anything can happen, anything can transition, anybody can leave, anybody can just depart at any time. And you kind of just have to pick up whatever’s left and just run with it. And that’s exactly what I’m doing right now.”

“When all of those things were happening, we were very, very excited, because he (Lashley) was somebody we looked up to, somebody I watched as a kid, and now I’m being paired with him, and he’s being my mentor, and he’s ushering us in this new chapter of The Street Profits.”

“All these things are running, we have a WrestleMania win, and then boom, it just stops. And it’s been this constant stop and go and stop and go and stop and go with the Profits where we’ll get momentum and then the momentum will stop, then momentum will start again, and the momentum will stop. And for us, that’s frustrating, because it’s hard to get behind a team whose momentum starts and then it shifts again.”

It has been almost four years since The Street Profits have held tag team gold. They haven’t been tag champions since dropping the SmackDown Tag Team titles to Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode on January 8, 2021, inside WWE’s Thunderdome.

“This is the crossroads that I’m at right now in life. Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be WWE Champion. Now I’ve got the dream job I wanted, been with this tag team, and it’s been fantastic, but I’ve also made a lot of changes and adjustments to try to be successful within this tag team, and I’m now at the point where I’ve done everything to be successful, I’ve tried to do something for a long time, and there’s still no success.”

“I’m looking at the universe, I’m looking at the signs. Is it time to adjust to a new era, a new mode, a new mindset, or do I need to start getting rid of people?”